different between felonious vs abigeat

English

Etymology

From felony +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?-l?'n?-?s

Adjective

felonious (comparative more felonious, superlative most felonious)

1. Of, relating to, being, or having the quality of felony

   The defendant must show that any bail money he hopes to post did not come from the felonious means.

2. (law) Done with intent to commit a crime.

   felonious homicide

Synonyms

(Of, relating to, being, or having the quality of felony): malignant, malicious, villainous, traitorous, perfidious

Derived terms

• feloniously
• feloniousness

Related terms

• felon
• felonize
• felonization

See also

• criminal
• misdemeanourous

Translations

References

• felonious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Latin abigeatus, from the verb ab ag? (“to drive”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b?d?i.?t/

Noun

abigeat (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it.
   • 1676 [published 1848], John Lauder, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, T. Constable, vol 1., page 101:

     But the driving away of goods, or taking away, and detaining, another mans boat, without violence, by the number of 10 pre?ent, is a wrong, unwarrantable, and oppre??ive act, and a ?ort of abigeat and thift, but is not properly a ryot […]

Synonyms

• (theft of cattle): cattle-rustling

Translations

See also

• abactor
• rustle

French

Noun

abigeat m (plural abigeats)

1. (law, archaic) Alternative form of abigéat

Further reading

• “abigeat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tabagie