1813. W. Hampton, Lett., 8 Nov., in S. R. Brown, Hist. 2nd War for Independence (1815), 102. The way is, in many places, blockaded and abatised, and the road impracticable for wheels during winter; but, by the employment of pack horses, if I am not overpowered, I hope to be able to prevent your starving.
1864. G. H. Thomas, Lett. to Sherman, 27 June, in Piatt & Boynton, Biog. Gen. Thomas (1893), 546. What force do you think of moving with? If with the greater part of the army, I think it decidedly better than butting against breastworks twelve feet think and strongly abatised.
fig. 1893. Anna M. Fitch, Loves of Paul Fenly, XII. ii.
| Now shrinks the weak flesh from the abatised road | |
| So paved with sharp falsehood. |
