If you grasp it, by abstracting from it even being, you will be in ecstasy.
Now to deplete is to check growth by abstracting the very source of nutriment.
Man has the happy faculty of abstracting his attention from things remote.
But our mind knows by abstracting from such the species, that is, the universal.
Acquisition by agreement of right of abstracting water from the river.
Well, take the risk of abstracting one day's journals, and have them ready for me.
"You must have an extraordinary power of abstracting your mind," Bernard said to her, observing it.
It can only be neutralised at the cost of abstracting lime from the system.
He wasn't asleep this time, having just succeeded in abstracting a veal patty.
That is, by any power or strength of his own, abstracting from the grace of God.
"abridgement or summary of a document," mid-15c., from abstract (adj.). The general sense of "a smaller quantity containing the virtue or power of a greater" [Johnson] is recorded from 1560s.
1540s, from Latin abstractus or else from the adjective abstract. Related: Abstracted; abstracting, abstractedly.
late 14c., originally in grammar (of nouns), from Latin abstractus "drawn away," past participle of abstrahere "to drag away; detach divert," from ab(s)- "away" (see ab-) + trahere "draw" (see tract (n.1)).
Meaning "withdrawn or separated from material objects or practical matters" is from mid-15c. That of "difficult to understand, abstruse" is from c.1400. Specifically in reference to modern art, it dates from 1914; abstract expressionism as an American-based uninhibited approach to art exemplified by Jackson Pollack is from 1952, but the term itself had been used in the 1920s of Kandinsky and others.
Oswald Herzog, in an article on "Der Abstrakte Expressionismus" (Sturm, heft 50, 1919) gives us a statement which with equal felicity may be applied to the artistic attitude of the Dadaists. "Abstract Expressionism is perfect Expressionism," he writes. "It is pure creation. It casts spiritual processes into a corporeal mould. It does not borrow objects from the real world; it creates its own objects .... The abstract reveals the will of the artist; it becomes expression. ..." [William A. Drake, "The Life and Deeds of Dada," 1922]
abstract ab·stract (āb-strākt', āb'strākt')
adj.
Considered apart from concrete existence.
Not applied or practical; theoretical.
