abet

To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.transitive

• aid and abet

To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action).transitive

• Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted.
• Later some of these artistic friends[…]abetted this ecclesiastical view in so far as they renounced pre-Raphaelism and learned to love the baroque; but that was an aesthetic fashion also, and corrupt,[…]

To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.obsoletetransitive

To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.obsolete

Fraud or cunning.obsolete

An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.obsolete