Crossword clues for abstracted
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Abstract \Ab*stract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abstracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Abstracting.] [See Abstract, a.]
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To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
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To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
The young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
--Blackw. Mag. To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
--Whately.To epitomize; to abridge.
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To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness.
--W. Black. (Chem.) 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.
Abstracted \Ab*stract"ed\, a.
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Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
The evil abstracted stood from his own evil.
--Milton. Separated from matter; abstract; ideal. [Obs.]
Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [Obs.]
--Johnson.Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. ``An abstracted scholar.''
--Johnson.
Wiktionary
1 Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. (First attested in the mid 16th century.)(R:SOED5: page=10) 2 (context now rare English) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete. (First attested in the early 17th century.) 3 (context now rare English) abstract; abstruse; difficult. (First attested in the early 17th century.) 4 inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative. (First attested in the early 17th century.) v
(en-past of: abstract)
WordNet
adj. taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead [syn: removed]
lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" [syn: absent, absentminded, scatty]
Usage examples of "abstracted".
His expression was morose, his black eyes abstracted as he sipped his third cup of coffee, then drew on his cigarette.
Hevin mentions several cases of grains of wheat abstracted from abscesses of the thoracic parietes, from thirteen to fifteen days after ingestion.
Whenever it is a question of thinking about the world or of practically modifying it, men can only work on a symbolic plan of the universe, only a simplified, two-dimensional map of things abstracted by the mind out of the complex and multifarious reality of immediate intuition.
For normally she did look so serene, abstracted as she usually seemed to be from the disturbing trivia of the daily round.
The only thing at Anthroresearch that still fazed him a little was SHROUD, whose face was a human skull that looked at you through a more-or-less abstracted butyrate head.
Though Denbigh appeared a little abstracted during the ride, his questions concerning Sir Edward and her friends kind and affectionate.
Yet Denbigh was abstracted and absent during the remainder of the repast, and Emily spoke to him once or twice without obtaining an answer.
His hand was constantly at his chin, stroking it as was his wont when perplexed or troubled, and even my mention of predynastic pottery failed to inspire more than an abstracted mumble of agreement.
For the greater part of the meal Egbert sat in an abstracted silence, the silence of a man whose mind is focussed on one topic.
The abstracted manner in which Mrs. Jellyby would deliver herself up to having this attire tried on by the dressmaker, and the sweetness with which she would then observe to me how sorry she was that I had not turned my thoughts to Africa, were consistent with the rest of her behaviour.
The peculiar combination of his near-exhaustion from the ordeal in the wood of the Raveners and the pervading gloom of dark, unbroken water and thick-hanging fog made his mood melancholy and his thoughts abstracted.
Gusterson, that everybody was quiet and abstracted and orderly down below, especially the ones wearing ticklers, meaning pretty much everybody?
Franklin Clarke glanced over at him, then evidently deciding that the other was too abstracted to count as a listener, he lowered his voice a little and addressed Poirot.
Two A Structural Analysis The following structural scheme, abstracted from the data on the states of non-ordinary reality presented in the foregoing part of this work, is conceived as an attempt to disclose the internal cohesion and the cogency of don Juan's teachings.
She most, and in her look sums all delight: Such pleasure took the Serpent to behold This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve Thus early, thus alone: Her heavenly form Angelick, but more soft, and feminine, Her graceful innocence, her every air Of gesture, or least action, overawed His malice, and with rapine sweet bereaved His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought: That space the Evil-one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good.