Dictionary entry

Abstracted

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ab‐stract″ed (�), a. 1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.

The evil abstracted stood from his own evil.

Milton.

2. Separated from matter; abstract; ideal.

3. Abstract; abstruse; difficult. Johnson.

4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. “An abstracted scholar.” Johnson.