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ting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.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.

Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind. "Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind." Addison. To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. Landor.

Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. Locke. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced b…

ing with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.

- Brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liquor. -- Brown study, a state of mental abstraction or serious reverie. W. Irving.

e act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.

An abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent

Abstraction of a child from its parents. Lamb.

Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation. A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. J. H. Newman.

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses. Intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics. Milton.

nstructed; dominion, territory ruled over; subjection, state of being subject; dejection; abstraction.

The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization.

off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction. I. Watts.

anner of its exercise. The two faculties that are the prerogative of man -- the powers of abstraction and imagination. I. Taylor. An unconstitutional exercise of his prerogative. Macaulay.

Involution in one's self; hence, abstraction of thought; reverie.

Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction.

ove humanity. [R.] Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.