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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Abstract \Ab*stract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abstracted}; p. pr & vb n. {Abstracting}.] [See {Abstract}, a.] 1. To withdraw; to separate; to take away He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as his was wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. --Blackw. Mag. 3. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. --Whately. 4. To epitomize; to abridge. --Franklin. 5. To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. --W. Black. 6. (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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Abstracted \Ab*stract"ed\, a. 1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. --Milton. 2. Separated from matter; abstract; ideal. [Obs.] 3. Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [Obs.] --Johnson. 4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. ``An abstracted scholar.'' --Johnson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: abstracted adj 1: taken out of or separated from "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead [syn: {removed}] 2: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: {absent}, {absentminded}, {scatty}]
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