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absence

a state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.-want; destitution; withdrawal.-inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.

absent

being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.-not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.-inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.-to take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.-to withhold from being present.

absent-minded

absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied.

absentaneous

pertaining to absence.

absentation

the act of absenting one's self.

absented

of absent

absentee

one who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an irish absentee.

absenteeism

the state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

absenter

one who absents one's self.

absenting

of absent

absently

in an absent or abstracted manner.

absentment

the state of being absent; withdrawal.

absentness

the quality of being absent-minded.

absey-book

an a-b-c book; a primer.

absinth

alt. of absinthe

absinthate

a combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

absinthe

the plant absinthium or common wormwood.-a strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.

absinthial

of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

absinthian

of the nature of wormwood.

absinthiate

to impregnate with wormwood.

absinthiated

impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.

absinthic

relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.

absinthin

the bitter principle of wormwood (artemisia absinthium).

absinthism

the condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.

absinthium

the common wormwood (artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

absis

see apsis.

absist

to stand apart from; top leave off; to desist.

absistence

a standing aloof.

absolute

loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.-complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.-viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.-loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.-capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.-positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.-authoritative; peremptory.-pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.-not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. see ablative absolute, under ablative.-in a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

absolutely

in an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

absoluteness

the quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

absolution

an absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.-an acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.-the exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.-an absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication.-the form of words by which a penitent is absolved.-delivery, in speech.

absolutism

the state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.-doctrine of absolute decrees.

absolutist

one who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.-one who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute.-of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.

absolutistic

pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

absolutory

serving to absolve; absolving.

absolvable

that may be absolved.

absolvatory

conferring absolution; absolutory.

absolve

to set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.-to free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.-to finish; to accomplish.-to resolve or explain.

absolved

of absolve

absolvent

absolving.-an absolver.

absolver

one who absolves.

absolving

of absolve

absonant

discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant.

absonous

discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.

absorb

to swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.-to suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.-to engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.-to take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. so heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.

absorbability

the state or quality of being absorbable.

absorbable

capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

absorbed

of absorb

absorbedly

in a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

absorbency

absorptiveness.

absorbent

absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.-anything which absorbs.-any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.-the vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

absorber

one who, or that which, absorbs.

absorbing

of absorb-swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.

absorbition

absorption.

absorpt

absorbed.

absorption

the act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.-an imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.-in living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.-entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

absorptive

having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.

absorptiveness

the quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.

absorptivity

absorptiveness.

absquatulate

to take one's self off; to decamp.

absque hoc

the technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

abstain

to hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.-to hinder; to withhold.

abstained

of abstain

abstainer

one who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.

abstaining

of abstain

abstemious

abstaining from wine.-sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.-sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.-marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.-promotive of abstemiousness.

abstemiousness

the quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. it expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

abstention

the act of abstaining; a holding aloof.

abstentious

characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.

absterge

to make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.

abstergent

serving to cleanse, detergent.-a substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.

absterse

to absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.

abstersion

act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.

abstersive

cleansing; purging.-something cleansing.

abstersiveness

the quality of being abstersive.

abstinence

the act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.-the practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.

abstinency

abstinence.

abstinent

refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.-one who abstains.-one of a sect who appeared in france and spain in the 3d century.

abstinently

with abstinence.

abstorted

wrested away.

abstract

withdraw; separate.-considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.-expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.-resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.-abstracted; absent in mind.-to withdraw; to separate; to take away.-to draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.-to separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.-to epitomize; to abridge.-to take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.-to separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. in this sense extract is now more generally used.-to perform the process of abstraction.-that which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. specifically: a summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.-a state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.-an abstract term.-a powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

abstracted

of abstract-separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.-separated from matter; abstract; ideal.-abstract; abstruse; difficult.-inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.

abstractedly

in an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

abstractedness

the state of being abstracted; abstract character.

abstracter

one who abstracts, or makes an abstract.

abstracting

of abstract

abstraction

the act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.-the act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. so, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.-an idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.-a separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.-absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.-the taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.-a separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.

abstractional

pertaining to abstraction.

abstractionist

an idealist.

abstractitious

obtained from plants by distillation.

abstractive

having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

abstractively

in a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself.

abstractiveness

the quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.

abstractly

in an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.

abstractness

the quality of being abstract.

abstringe

to unbind.

abstrude

to thrust away.

abstruse

concealed or hidden out of the way.-remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.

abstrusely

in an abstruse manner.