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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.

Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. "An abstracted scholar." Johnson.

A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. Nicholson.

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

ncreasing velocity. -- Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol.

between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candlelight, or burning bodies. Fairholt.

robation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause. On such a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. Southey.

] Bacon. Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together. Holland.

nts as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished bees. Holland. Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve. Milton.

Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak.

se very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. Milton. -- To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty. -- To take account of, or to take into account, to take into consideration; to notice. "Of their doings, God takes no account." Milton . -- A writ of account (…

An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. [Obs.] Holland.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. [Obs.] Holland.

s in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

he state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity. Nichol.

sting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.

One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.