APage 26
- English Word Absterse Definition To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
- English Word Abstersion Definition Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
- English Word Abstersive Definition Cleansing; purging.
- English Word Abstersive Definition Something cleansing.
- English Word Abstersiveness Definition The quality of being abstersive.
- English Word Abstinence Definition The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.
- English Word Abstinence Definition The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
- English Word Abstinency Definition Abstinence.
- English Word Abstinent Definition Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
- English Word Abstinent Definition One who abstains.
- English Word Abstinent Definition One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
- English Word Abstinently Definition With abstinence.
- English Word Abstorted Definition Wrested away.
- English Word Abstract Definition Withdraw; separate.
- English Word Abstract Definition Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.
- English Word Abstract Definition Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.
- English Word Abstract Definition Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.
- English Word Abstract Definition Abstracted; absent in mind.
- English Word Abstract Definition To withdraw; to separate; to take away.
- English Word Abstract Definition To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.
- English Word Abstract Definition To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.
- English Word Abstract Definition To epitomize; to abridge.
- English Word Abstract Definition To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
- English Word Abstract Definition 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.
- English Word Abstract Definition To perform the process of abstraction.
- English Word Abstract Definition That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
- English Word Abstract Definition A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.
- English Word Abstract Definition An abstract term.
- English Word Abstract Definition A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
- English Word Abstracted Definition of Abstract