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abstract verb. LME.
[Partly from ABSTRACT adjective & noun; partly from Latin abstract- pa. ppl stem of abstrahere: see prec.]
verb trans. Separate, disengage, from. LME.
A. Cowley The Importunities of Company or Business, which would abstract him from his Beloved [Poetry].
verb trans. Withdraw, take away; euphem. steal. L15.
H. Martineau The public burdens, which..abstract a large proportion of profits and wages. F. Hoyle Living plants abstract carbon dioxide and add oxygen to the atmosphere.
b. verb trans. Esp. Chemistry. Extract, distil. E17-E18.
J. Marston Poison from roses who could e'er abstract?
verb trans. Summarize, abridge. L16.
verb trans. Separate in mental conception; consider abstractly. E17.
Gibbon To abstract the notions of time, of space, and of matter. G. W. Knight To abstract the skeleton of logical sequence which is the story of the play.
verb refl. & intrans. Withdraw oneself, retire from, (lit. & fig.). M17.
abstracting from arch. leaving out of consideration.
abstractable adjective L19.
abstracter noun a person who abstracts; a person who makes an abstract or abstracts: L17.
abstractor noun an abstracter; spec. (now Hist.) as a title of a grade of clerks in the British Civil Service: M17.