adj

• (by extension)
  "abject failure   abject nonsense   abject terror"
• (by extension)
  "The Roots of this Plant [healing wolfsbane (Aconitum anthora)] increaſe abundantly, ſoon overrunning a large Piece of Ground, therefore ſhould be confin'd in ſome abject Part of the Garden, or planted under Trees, it being very hardy, and growing in almoſt every Soil or Situation."
• (sociology, usually nominalized) Marginalized as deviant.
  "The abject can easily be grafted onto the immigrant body, which is often conceived as something to be excluded in order to preserve a coherent yet racist national imaginary."

verb

• (mycology) Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).