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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
abet
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
aiding
▪ Both were accused of aiding and abetting the transfer abroad of £2.6m of St Piran assets in breach of the undertaking.
▪ The appellant's wife was acquitted of aiding and abetting the appellant on count 4 and discharged.
▪ Abohalima, Salameh and Ayyad, like Alkaisi, are charged with aiding and abetting the bombing.
▪ That would be less controversial, since liability could then be explained in terms of aiding and abetting the breach.
▪ Three Ballycastle men are on trial accused of aiding and abetting in the murder.
■ VERB
aid
▪ Where were those dark Plutonian forces when she needed them to aid and abet her plotting?
▪ But Selikoff persisted in his campaign against asbestos, aided and abetted by labor unions and environmental groups.
▪ It isn't eased by the knowledge that the bankers who aided and abetted these exercises have suffered as much as anybody.
▪ What if these citizens were quietly protected, even aided and abetted, by our elected officials?
▪ Second, the doctor has aided and abetted the patient only in his refusal to undergo further treatment.
▪ The hack drivers aided and abetted this extortion, hustling unwary tourists to the Davis establishment.
▪ It has been aided and abetted.
▪ The act freed for ever slaves used by rebels to aid or abet the insurrection of the states.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
aid and abet
▪ Activist tendencies aid and abet stage 1, having experiences.
▪ But Selikoff persisted in his campaign against asbestos, aided and abetted by labor unions and environmental groups.
▪ It has been aided and abetted.
▪ It isn't eased by the knowledge that the bankers who aided and abetted these exercises have suffered as much as anybody.
▪ Second, the doctor has aided and abetted the patient only in his refusal to undergo further treatment.
▪ The hack drivers aided and abetted this extortion, hustling unwary tourists to the Davis establishment.
▪ What if these citizens were quietly protected, even aided and abetted, by our elected officials?
▪ Where were those dark Plutonian forces when she needed them to aid and abet her plotting?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Abohalima, Salameh and Ayyad, like Alkaisi, are charged with aiding and abetting the bombing.
▪ It has been aided and abetted.
▪ It isn't eased by the knowledge that the bankers who aided and abetted these exercises have suffered as much as anybody.
▪ My negligence abetted the theft of time.
▪ Other charges included abetting various other financial offences and abusing state authority.
▪ The hack drivers aided and abetted this extortion, hustling unwary tourists to the Davis establishment.
▪ The Shawnees, abetted by southern Creeks, were seeking to stem the surge of expansion into their hinterlands.
▪ What if these citizens were quietly protected, even aided and abetted, by our elected officials?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abet

Abet \A*bet"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Abetting.] [OF. abeter; a (L. ad) + beter to bait (as a bear), fr. Icel. beita to set dogs on, to feed, originally, to cause to bite, fr. Icel. b[=i]ta to bite, hence to bait, to incite. See Bait, Bet.]

  1. To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. ``The whole tribe abets the villany.''
    --South.

    Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth?
    --Gay.

  2. To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense. [Obs.].

    Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  3. (Law) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.

    Syn: To incite; instigate; set on; egg on; foment; advocate; countenance; encourage; second; uphold; aid; assist; support; sustain; back; connive at.

Abet

Abet \A*bet"\, n. [OF. abet, fr. abeter.] Act of abetting; aid. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
abet

late 14c. (implied in abetting), from Old French abeter "to bait, to harass with dogs," literally "to cause to bite," from a- "to" (see ad-) + beter "to bait," from Frankish or some other Germanic source, perhaps Low Franconian betan "incite," or Old Norse beita "cause to bite," from Proto-Germanic *baitjan, from PIE root *bheid- "to split" (see fissure). Related: Abetted; abetting.

Wiktionary
abet

n. 1 (context obsolete English) Fraud or cunning. (First attested from 1150 to 1350.) 2 (context obsolete English) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. (First attested from 1350 to 1470.) vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. (Attested from around (1350 to 1470) (1390) until the early 17th century.)(R:CDOE: page=6) 2 (context transitive English) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime. (First attested from around (1350 to 1470).)(R:SOED5: page=4) 3 (context transitive archaic English) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid any good cause, opinion, or action; to maintain. (First attested in the late 16th century.) 4 (context obsolete English) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.

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WordNet
abet

  1. v. assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing

  2. [also: abetting, abetted]

Wikipedia
ABET

ABET, incorporated as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., is a non-governmental organization that accredits post-secondary education programs in " applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology".

The accreditation of these programs occurs mainly in the United States but also internationally. , around 3,278 programs are accredited, distributed over more than 670 universities and colleges in 23 countries.

ABET is the recognized U.S. accreditor of college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. ABET also provides leadership internationally through workshops, consultancies, memoranda of understanding, and mutual recognition agreements, such as the Washington Accord. ABET has been recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) since 1997. Also, ABET evaluates programs offered in a 100-percent online format.

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Usage examples of "abet".

I love thee, but I should be an untrue friend did I abet thee in thy lawlessness.

No one could doubt that Philip Augustus would abet his vassal, the Countess of Poitou, in dispositions so well calculated to thwart the Angevin.

I dreamed that night that she had married a professional gambler, who cut her throat in the course of the first six months because the dear child refused to aid and abet his nefarious schemes.

Bal had lent Barrie to us, and without a woman to aid and abet him, it seemed to me that he was powerless.

He was killed in much the same manner as Lord Abet and the other nobles these past months.

Most of all I trust to the generosity of the Hathors, who have abetted me so openly thus far.

Clearly you have aided and abetted a traitor to escape justice, and you will be remanded.

Kuhmbuhluhners on their big horses, aided and abetted, if the tales of the fugitives were to be believed, by bearded Ahrmehnee warriors and even Moon Maidens.

According to it, the Franks, uniting with the barons of Antioch and its fiefs, abetted by certain Knights Templars and whatever forces could be recruited in Tripoli and Jerusalem, would go against Islam in the east and north, rescue Edessa, and repair the bulwarks of Antioch against the danger of invasion.

Even the Templars and the Hospitallers were divided, and the Italian merchant princes abetted one faction or the other as their own interests decreed.

And now I am a recreant, and he who aided and abetted me in my asseverations of independence remains faithful.

Here was my wife, who had secretly aided and abetted her son in his design, and been the recipient of his hopes and fears on the subject, turning to me, who had dared to utter a feeble protest or two only to be scoffed at, and summarily sat upon, asking if the game was really safe.

James abetted him in saying that fifty pounds was not a penny too much to lend on such a treasure.

That quest was abetted by a sympathetic schoolteacher, Rebecca, who saw in the lad a glimmering hope that occasionally there might be resurrection from a bitter life sentence in the emotionally barren and aesthetically vitiated Kentucky hamlet, and who ultimately seduced him.

Hitler and Mussolini was dead, but a new form of it was condoned and abetted abroad by the United States government.