Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Abscond

Abscond′

means properly to hide; but we generally use the word in the sense of stealing off secretly from an employer. (Latin, abscondo.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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