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abstracted, ppl. a.|æbˈstræktɪd|
[f. abstract v. + -ed.]
1. Drawn off, withdrawn, removed; separate, apart from.
1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 3 The whole body of Geometry is of all Sciences most intelligible, and yet abstracted from all sensible matter. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 463 The Evil one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good. 1736Butler Analogy ii. vii. 374, [A] single event, taken alone and abstracted from all such correspondence. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 237 The Provençal love-poetry was as abstracted from all sensuality as that of Petrarca.
2. Withdrawn from the contemplation of present objects; absent in mind.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. (1656) ii. §11 Our grosser memories have then [in our dreams] so little hold of our abstracted understandings, that they forget the story. 1731A. Hill Adv. to Poets ix, For a Great Poet is, naturally, an abstracted thinker. 1824Scott St. Ronan's (1868) xxx. 712 He walked on, sucking his cigar, and apparently in as abstracted a mood as Mr. Cargill himself. 1864Skeat tr. Uhland's Poems 170 And therefore let yon maiden take my place, Who sits so silent and abstracted there.
†3. Separated from matter or from concrete embodiment, ideal; hence, abstruse, difficult. (Obs. replaced by abstract a. 4.)
1615Crooke Body of Man 30 The Faculties..are but abstracted Notions. 1648Wilkins Math. Mag. i. i. 4 The ancient Mathematicians did place all their learning in abstracted speculations. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 76 ⁋2 It is natural to mean well, when only abstracted ideas of virtue are proposed to the mind. 1794Sullivan View of Nat. I. 111 The actual divisibility of matter, indeed, is a subject so very intricate and abstracted, that it can only be conjectured upon. 1801Strutt Sp. & Past. Introd. §9. 11 The abstracted love of glory. 1823Lamb Elia (1865) Ser. i. i. 7 A newspaper was thought too refined and abstracted.
4. Presented in abstract; concentrated, epitomized. ? Obs.
1633Massinger Guardian iii. vi. The subtlety of all wantons, tho' abstracted, Can show no seeming colour of excuse To plead in my defence. |