LekhoriLekhoriAn abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
An analysis and abstract of every treatise he had read.
Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled.
An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
Thus the concrete like has its abstract likeness; the concretes, father and son, have the abstracts, paternity and filiation.
Derived; extracted.
Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light.
To separate; to disengage.
He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices.
From Middle English abstract, borrowed from Latin abstractus, perfect passive participle of abstrahō (“draw away”), formed from abs- (“away”) + trahō (“to pull, draw”). The verbal sense is first attes...
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