Lexic.us

Definition of Abstracted

1. Adjective. Lost in thought; showing preoccupation. "The scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"

Definition of Abstracted

1. a. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.

Definition of Abstracted

1. Adjective. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: obsolete) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: obsolete) Abstract; abstruse; difficult. ¹

4. Adjective. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative. ¹

5. Verb. (past of abstract) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Abstracted

1. abstract [v] - See also: abstract

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstracted

Literary usage of Abstracted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"Abstract may in poetry be used iu the sense of abstracted. ... Absent and abstracted denote an exclusion of present objects ; diverted and distracted, ..."

2. Crabb's English Synonyms by George. Crabb (1917)
"Qualities are abstracted from the subjects in which they are inherent; ... The mind is never less abstracted from one's friends than when separated from ..."

3. Collections for a History of Staffordshire by Staffordshire Record Society (1899)
"1-204 Final Concords, or Pedes Finium of Staffordshire of the reign of Elizabeth, continued from Vol. XII, 2 to 15 Elizabeth, abstracted from the original ..."

4. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"How those please the imagination, who treat of subjects abstracted from matter, by allusions taken from it. What allusions most pleasing to the imagination. ..."

5. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"But we cannot abstract what is not there to be abstracted. Space, as a relation of the kind described, is not an abstraction, but abstraction of this ..."

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