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Figure :: Figure (n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement..

#NAME? :: -ion () A noun suffix denoting act, process, result of an act or a process, thing acted upon, state, or condition; as, revolution, the act or process of revolving; construction, the act or process of constructing; a thing constructed; dominion, territory ruled over; subjection, state of being subject; dejection; abstraction..

Freeze :: Freeze (v. t.) To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat..

Notional :: Notional (a.) Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions..

Prescind :: Prescind (v. t.) To cut off; to abstract.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects..

Absently :: Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.

Abstract :: Abstract (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.

Abstractness :: Abstractness (n.) The quality of being abstract.

Metaphysics :: Metaphysics (n.) The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles..

Universal :: Universal (n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it..

Mooner :: Mooner (n.) One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck..

Brief :: Brief (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings..

Doctrinaire :: Doctrinaire (n.) One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions..

Defiliation :: Defiliation (n.) Abstraction of a child from its parents.

Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.

Ab- :: Ab- () A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A-(6)..

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, reptile is an abstract or general name..

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