abstracted
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əb.ˈstɹæk.tɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /əb.ˈstɹæk.tɪd/, /æb.ˈstɹæk.tɪd/
Adjective[edit]
abstracted (comparative more abstracted, superlative most abstracted)
- Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. [First attested in the mid 16th century.][1]
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- the evil abstracted stood
From his own evil, […]
- (now rare) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
- 1796–1797, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume IX, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, page 1:
- I am not sure, that the best way of discussing any subject, except those, that concern the abstracted sciences, is not somewhat in the way of dialogue.
- (now rare) Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
- 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX. A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, pages 169–170:
- The preſent Argument is the moſt abſtracted that ever I engaged in, it ſtrains my Faculties to their higheſt Stretch; and I deſire the Reader to attend with utmoſt perpenſity; For, I now proceed to unravel this knotty Point.
- Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
- ...an abstracted scholar...
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 57:
- I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
separated or disconnected
inattentive to surrounding objects
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Verb[edit]
abstracted
- simple past and past participle of abstract
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstracted”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.