Definition of abstract

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

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Muse :: Muse (n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study..
Prescind :: Prescind (v. t.) To cut off; to abstract.
Argument :: Argument (n.) The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem..
Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
Precis :: Precis (n.) A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.
Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction..
#NAME? :: -ness () A suffix used to form abstract nouns expressive of quality or state; as, goodness, greatness..
Concept :: Concept (n.) An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
Anhydride :: Anhydride (n.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water..
Abstract :: Abstract (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.
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..
Abstractional :: Abstractional (a.) Pertaining to abstraction.
Docket :: Docket (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed..
Abstractedly :: Abstractedly (adv.) In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..
Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.
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..
Remote :: Remote (superl.) Separate; abstracted.
Defalcation :: Defalcation (n.) An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement..
Personification :: Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands..
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