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Abundant activity. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Action. [Obs.] Shak.

Tendency or impulse to act. [R.] Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.

Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. "The aboral or abactinal area." L. Agassiz.

Stealing cattle on a large scale. [Obs.]

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

To wean. [R.] Bailey.

The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. Blount.

See Catharsis, below.

Withdraw; separate. [Obs.] The more abstract . . . we are from the body. Norris.

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.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

In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

The state of being abstracted; abstract character.

One who abstracts, or makes an abstract.

The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. A wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community. J. S. Mill.

Pertaining to abstraction.

An idealist. Emerson.

Obtained from plants by distillation. [Obs.] Crabb.

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. "The abstractive faculty." I. Taylor.

In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. Feltham.