abstort
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English
Etymology
From Latin abs- + tortus, past participle of torqueō (“I twist”).[1]
Verb
abstort (third-person singular simple present abstorts, present participle abstorting, simple past and past participle abstorted)
- (transitive, rare) To wrest by force or persuasion.
- 1745, Christian Ludovici, Teutsch-englisches Lexicon, page 767:
- he has violently and wrongfully abstorted it from them.
- 1858, Edward Nichols Dennys, The Alpha: A Revelation, But No Mystery, page 285:
- It is needless to remark on the modesty of this epithet when assumed by men;—and by such men! by the lord Johns, and the lord Harrys, who even now abstort from us more homage than we yield to Heaven!
- 1936, Guy Innes, New Statesman and Nation - Volume 10; Volume 46, page 176:
- How stillsome and flooth could suburbity be Were the gramsters abstorted by felo-de-se- For I daminate grams, and they scruciate me!
- 1978, The Bombay Civic Journal - Volume 25, page 7:
- […] abstorting surplus staff wherever found necessary.
References
- ^ “abstorted, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
