abstract
adjective
thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.
have abstracted
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present perfectof abstract.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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If you suppose six particular cases from which you have abstracted this principle, it will contain neither more nor less ideas than if you had deduced it from a single one.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
In the pavilion that we have abstracted from this long series of reliefs may be recognized the field-chapel of the king.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
Had there been a mail for the ladies, he would have brought it to them; had it contained a letter from California, he would have abstracted and burnt it.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
On the following day the boxes were sent down, and Mrs. Mason might have abstracted even another chair without detection, for the cases lay unheeded from month to month in the curate's still unfurnished room.
From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
Consider the most beautiful forms; what remains behind after you have abstracted from them the creative principle within?
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
