ABJECT

ABJECT', verb transitive To throw away; to cast out. obsolete AB'JECT, adjective [Latin abjectus, from abjicio, to throw away, from ab and jacio, to throw.]1. Sunk to a low condition; applied to persons or things. Hence.2. Worthless, mean, despicable, low in estimation, without hope or regard.AB'JECT, noun A person in the lowest condition and despicable. Psalms 35:15.

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abject. Abject, a. mean, worthless, sunk very low, file

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Ab″ject (ăb″jĕkt), a. [[L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.]] 1. 1. Cast down; low-lying.
From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. 2. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. “Base and abject flatterers.” Addison. “An abject liar.” Macaulay.
And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak. Syn. — Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded.