abject /(ăb"jĕkt)/

ab·ject

abject

a.
  1. Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.]
    From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.
  2. Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
    And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams.
  3. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; -- of persons.
  4. Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as, abject poverty.

Abject

v. t.
  1. To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [Obs.]

Abject

n.
  1. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [Obs.]
    Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?