Definition of absent

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Absent (a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.

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Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.
Want :: Want (v. i.) To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four..
Musard :: Musard (v. i.) A dreamer; an absent-minded person.
Muzzy :: Muzzy (a.) Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid.
Absentee :: Absentee (n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee..
Wanting :: Wanting (a.) Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion..
Curator :: Curator (n.) One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian..
Absently :: Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
Away :: Away (adv.) Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home..
Thence :: Thence (adv.) Not there; elsewhere; absent.
Absence :: Absence (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
Absent-minded :: Absent-minded (a.) Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied.
Absent :: Absent (v. t.) To withhold from being present.
Cut :: Cut (v. t.) To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc..
Present :: Present (a.) Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent..
Furlough :: Furlough (a.) Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence..
Missing :: Missing (v. i.) Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..
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