abator

English

From abate (“to enter without right after the owner dies and before the heir takes over”) +‎ -or.[1] From Anglo-Norman.

abator (plural abators)

(law) a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee [Mid 16^th century.] [2]

From abate (“do away with”) +‎ -or.[1] From Middle English, from Old French.

abator (plural abators)

(law) one who abates, ends, or does away with a nuisance [Late 16^th century.] [2]

Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN)
Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abator”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.

abator

Borrowed from French abattoir.

abator n (plural abatoare)

Declension of abator

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