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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /əb.ˈstɹæk.tɪd/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əb.ˈstɹæk.tɪd/, /æb.ˈstɹæk.tɪd/

形容詞

abstracted (comparative more abstracted, superlative most abstracted)

1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]^[1]
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     the evil abstracted stood
     From his own evil, […]

2. (now rare) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]^[1]
   • 1796–1797, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume IX, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] 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.

3. (now rare) Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]^[1]
   • 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX. A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], 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.

4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]^[1]

   ...an abstracted scholar...

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 57:

     I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?

派生語

• abstractedly
• abstractedness

動詞

abstracted

1. simple past and past participle of abstract

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