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16 words match “ABSTRACTED”

ABSTRACTED a. 4 definitions
Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton.
ABSTRACTEDLY adv.
In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
ABSTRACTEDNESS n.
The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
INABSTRACTED a.
Not abstracted.
ABSENT-MINDED a.
Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness, n. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly, adv.
ABSENTLY adv.
In an absent or abstracted manner.
ABSTRACT a. 4 definitions
Abstracted; absent in mind. "Abstract, as in a trance." Milton. An abstract idea (Metaph.), an idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as be…
CONVENTIONAL a.
Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.
DISTRAIT a.
Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
ENTITATIVE a.
Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances. Ellis. -- En"ti*ta*tive*ly, adv.
KNOWLEDGE n.
lural. There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges. Bacon. Knowledges is a term in frequent use by Bacon, and, though now obsolete, should be revived, as without it we are compelled to borrow "cognitions" to express its import. Sir W. Hamilton. To use a wo…
MATERIALIZE v.
ects. Having wich wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images. Tatler.
MOODY a.
Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott.
MOON v.
To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner. Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. C. Kingsley.
MOONER n.
One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck. [R.] Dickens.
REMOTE a.
Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies." Locke.