Definition of absent

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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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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).
Absentness :: Absentness (n.) The quality of being absent-minded.
Musard :: Musard (v. i.) A dreamer; an absent-minded person.
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.
Discontinuer :: Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee..
Greeting :: Greeting (n.) Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent.
Privation :: Privation (n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
Missing :: Missing (v. i.) Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
Staringly :: Stargasing (n.) Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction..
Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
Wanting :: Wanting (a.) Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion..
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..
Absently :: Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.
Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent..
Absentment :: Absentment (n.) The state of being absent; withdrawal.
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..
Present :: Present (a.) Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent..
Absenting :: Absenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absen.
Away :: Away (adv.) Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home..
Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.
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