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abstracter en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /æbˈstɹæk.tɚ/ (US)
Etymology
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Latin abstrahō
Latin abstractusbor.
Middle English abstract
English abstract
English -er
English abstracter
From abstract + -er.
Meanings
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One who abstracts, or makes an abstract, as in records or documents.
a title abstractor
an abstractor of title
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Someone that finds and summarizes information for legal or insurance work.
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An accounting clerk who records payroll deductions.
Forms
abstracter en · ADJ · etymology 2
Pronunciation
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- /æbˈstɹæk.tɚ/ (US)
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Meanings
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(comparative, form-of, rare) 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, […]
1698, John Norris, Treatises upon several subjects: viz.: Reason and religion, or, the grounds and measures of devotion ; reflections upon the conduct of human life ..., page 316:[…] 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.
1991, James Matisoff, quoted in Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Bernd Heine, Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, John Benjamins Publishing, page 384