| Abstract (abstract) |
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| a. | (#; 277) |
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| Ab"stract` |
| [L.
abstractus, p. p. of abstrahere to draw from, separate;
ab, abs + trahere to draw. See Trace.] |
Withdraw; separate.
Considered apart from any application to a
particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as,
abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse;
difficult.
Expressing a
particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties
which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an
abstract word.
Abstracted; absent in mind.
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| Abstract (abstract) |
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| v. t. | ((?)) |
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| Ab*stract" |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Abstracted] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Abstracting.] [See Abstract, a.]
|
To withdraw] to separate; to take
away.
To draw off in respect to interest or attention;
as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the
mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or
attribute.
To epitomize; to abridge.
To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as,
to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
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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| Abstract (abstract) |
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| v. t. | |
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| Ab*stract" |
|
To perform the process
of abstraction.
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| Abstract (abstract) |
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| n. | ((?)) |
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| Ab"stract` |
| [See Abstract,
a.] |
That which comprises or
concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of
several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or
book, or of a statement; a brief.
A state of separation from other things; as, to
consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated
things.
An abstract term.
A powdered solid extract of a
vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one
part of the abstract represents two parts of the original
substance.
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