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abstrude en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /əbˈstɹuːd/

Etymology

From Latin abstrūdō (“push away, hide”). See abstruse.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To thrust away.
   • .[…] the Greeks, while they retained the purity of their language, did not, any more than the Latins, rhyme their verse, but on the contrary (Mr. Swift's very words) 'abstruded the rhyme from it by metre and quantity.' 1805, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, page 193:
   • Thus it is with regard to the elementary substance of fire; dispensed, perhaps, to every thing corporeal, but hid deepest in those substances which are most densely compacted. It is intimately abstruded in what poetical licence terms the Veins of Flint; […] 1773, Thomas Patten, A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord North, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Concerning Subscription to the 39 Articles, page 27:
   • The Golek". A hexagonal roll, with a row of teeth, about six inches long, abstruding from each of the sides of the hexagon; or a serrated board in place of the teeth. This implement is used in some districts instead of the plough or “chankol.” 1919, Straits Settlements. Dept, “Bulletin”, in Agriculture:
   • In winter, owing to the great amount of water poured into the sea, and the less amount abstruded by evaporation, the water stands some ten or twelve feet higher than at other times. 1873, William Denton, Elizabeth M. Foote Denton, The Soul of Things, Or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries, page 71:

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