Definition of Abrpt
Ab*rupt" (&?;), a. [L. abruptus, p. p.
of abrumpere to break off; ab + rumpere to break. See
Rupture.] 1. Broken off; very steep, or craggy,
as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt
places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.
2. Without notice to prepare the mind for the
event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt
departure." Shak.
3. Having sudden transitions from one subject to
another; unconnected.
The abrupt style, which hath many breaches.
B. Jonson.
4. (Bot.) Suddenly terminating, as if cut
off. Gray.
Syn. -- Sudden; unexpected; hasty; rough; curt; unceremonious;
rugged; blunt; disconnected; broken.
Ab*rupt" (&?;), n. [L. abruptum.]
An abrupt place. [Poetic] "Over the vast
abrupt."
Milton.
Ab*rupt", v. t. To tear off or
asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them." Sir T.
Browne.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-
shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most
affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another
author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption."
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- (poetic) Something which is abrupt.
- Over the vast abrupt. - Milton
- Broken off; very steep or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; as, abrupt places.
- Tumbling through ricks abrupt. - Thomson
- Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
- The cause of your abrupt departure. - Shakespeare, Henry VI Part I, II-iii
- Curt in manner; rude; uncivil; impolite.
- Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected.
- The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived.
- The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. - B. Jonson
- (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncated.
- (transitive) To tear off or asunder; to interrupt suddenly.
- Till death abrupts them. - Sir T. Browne
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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