GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Abstract , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abstracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Abstracting.] [See Abstract, a.]
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   To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
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   He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
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   The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
   Blackw. Mag.
   
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   To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
   Whately.
   
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   To epitomize; to abridge.
   Franklin.
   
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   To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
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   Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
   W. Black.
   
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   (Chem.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.
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   Abstracted , a.
    Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
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   The evil abstracted stood from his own evil.
   Milton.
   
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   Separated from matter; abstract; ideal. [Obs.]
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   Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [Obs.]
   Johnson.
   
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   Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. “An abstracted scholar.”
   Johnson.
   
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