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English
Etymology
From abstract + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
abstracted (comparative more abstracted, superlative most abstracted)
- Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: ">…] , and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:the evil abstracted stood
From his own evil,
- (now rare) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.
1796–1797, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”, in , editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume IX, London: ">…] for C and J Rivington, , published 1826, →OCLC, page 1:I am not sure, that the best way of discussing any subject, except those, that concern the abstracted sciences, is not somewhat in the way of dialogue.
- (now rare) Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
1704, , “Section IX. A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth.”, in A Tale of a Tub. To which is Added, An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James’s Library.">…], London: John Nutt, , →OCLC, pages 169–170:The preſent Argument is the moſt abſtracted that ever I engaged in, it ſtrains my Faculties to their higheſt Stretch; and I deſire the Reader to attend with utmoſt perpenſity; For, I now proceed to unravel this knotty Point.
- Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
an abstracted scholar
1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 40:I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?
Derived terms
Translations
separated or disconnected
inattentive to surrounding objects
Verb
abstracted
- simple past and past participle of abstract
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstracted”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.