Definition of absent

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Absent (v. t.) To withhold from being present.

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Thence :: Thence (adv.) Not there; elsewhere; absent.
Absenter :: Absenter (n.) One who absents one's self.
Absent :: Absent (a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent..
Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.
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).
Miss :: Miss (v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting..
Absentaneous :: Absentaneous (a.) Pertaining to absence.
Absentation :: Absentation (n.) The act of absenting one's self.
Present :: Present (a.) Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to 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..
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.
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..
Absenting :: Absenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absen.
Absentment :: Absentment (n.) The state of being absent; withdrawal.
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..
Absently :: Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.
Absent :: Absent (v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
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..
Privation :: Privation (n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
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