Part 59

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To withdraw; to separate; to take away.</def>

<blockquote>He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution <b>abstracted</b> from his own prejudices. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To draw off in respect to interest or attention; <as>as, his was wholly <ex>abstracted</ex> by other objects</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The young stranger had been <b>abstracted</b> and silent. <i>Blackw. Mag.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.</def>

<i>Whately.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To epitomize; to abridge.</def>

<i>Franklin.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; <as>as, to <ex>abstract</ex> goods from a parcel, or money from a till</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Von Rosen had quietly <b>abstracted</b> the bearing-reins from the harness. <i>W. Black.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense <i>extract</i> is now more generally used.</def>

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<hw>Ab*stract"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To perform the process of abstraction.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>I own myself able to <b>abstract</b> in one sense. <i>Berkeley.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Ab"stract`</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Abstract</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>An <b>abstract</b> of every treatise he had read. <i>Watts.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Man, the <b>abstract</b> Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. <i>Ford.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A state of separation from other things; <as>as, to consider a subject in the <ex>abstract</ex>, or apart from other associated things</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An abstract term.</def>

<blockquote>The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the <b>abstracts</b> "paternity" and "filiety." <i>J. S. Mill.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<cs><col>Abstract of title</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>an epitome of the evidences of ownership.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Abridgment; compendium; epitome; synopsis. See <er>Abridgment</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Ab*stract"ed</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.</def>

<blockquote>The evil <b>abstracted</b> stood from his own evil. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Separated from matter; abstract; ideal.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>