Definition of absent

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Absent (a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent..

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Absenter :: Absenter (n.) One who absents one's self.
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..
Musard :: Musard (v. i.) A dreamer; an absent-minded person.
Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.
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).
Absented :: Absented (imp. & p. p.) of Absen.
Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.
Discontinuer :: Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee..
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..
Muse :: Muse (n.) To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
Absent-minded :: Absent-minded (a.) Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied.
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..
Absently :: Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.
Obrok :: Obrok (n.) A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.
Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..
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..
Staringly :: Stargasing (n.) Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction..
Absentaneous :: Absentaneous (a.) Pertaining to absence.
Absent :: Absent (v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
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