If you abet someone these days you are very likely to be up to no good, but this was not always the case.
Since the late 18th century the word has mainly occurred in the phrase aid and abet, ‘to help and encourage someone in some wrongdoing’, but in it’s early use to abet someone was simply to urge them to do something, not necessarily something bad.
It comes from the Old French word abeter, which could also mean ‘to encourage a hound to bite’
Bait has a similar root.
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