Skip to content

abstracter

noun

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L315963 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /æbˈstɹæk.tɚ/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin abstrahō Latin abstractusbor. Middle English abstract English abstract Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English abstracter From abstract + -er.

  1. comparative form of abstract: more abstract

    Absurdity, which perhaps may signifie more with some Apprehensions, than an abstracter way of reasoning : It is this, That upon this Supposition it would follow, chat if God himself should impose any Command upon a Creature, […]

    […] bleaching, which nicely captures the partial effacement of a morpheme's semantic features, the stripping away of some of its precise content so it can be used in an abstracter, grammatical-hardware-like way.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin abstrahō Latin abstractusbor. Middle English abstract English abstract Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English abstracter From abstract + -er.

  1. One who abstracts, or makes an abstract, as in records or documents.

    an abstractor of title

    a title abstractor

  2. Someone that finds and summarizes information for legal or insurance work.
  3. An accounting clerk who records payroll deductions.