abanded

Verb

aband (third-person singular simple present abands, present participle abanding, simple past and past participle abanded)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To desert; to forsake.
   • Two brethren were their Capitaines, which hight
     Hengiſt and Horſus, well approov’d in warre,
     And both of them men of renowmed might;
     Who making vantage of their civill iarre,
     And of thoſe forreiners, which came from farre,
     Grew great, and got large portions of land,
     That in the Realme ere long they...1590, Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene, Second Booke, Canto X., page 108