Definition of abstract

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Abstract (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

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Abstractiveness :: Abstractiveness (n.) The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal..
Defiliation :: Defiliation (n.) Abstraction of a child from its parents.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word..
Congelation :: Congelation (n.) The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing..
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used..
Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle..
Absently :: Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.
Literalism :: Literalism (n.) The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization..
Depth :: Depth (n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
Universal :: Universal (n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it..
Jalap :: "Jalap (n.) The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa..
Mooner :: Mooner (n.) One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck..
Precisive :: Precisive (a.) Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction..
Yoga :: Yoga (n.) A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties..
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects..
Abstract :: Abstract (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.
Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
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