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Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Serving to absolve; absolving. "An absolutory sentence." Ayliffe.

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifa…

Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. "Absonant to nature." Quarles.

Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] "Absonous to our reason." Glanvill.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

th distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. E. Darwin.

To take one's self off; to decamp. [A jocular word. U. S.]

To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [R.] Quincy.

Serving to cleanse, detergent.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

rance 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. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, n…

Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; exiting in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton.

process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, sof…

Pertaining to abstraction.

To unbind. [Obs.] Bailey.