Abstrude
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əbˈstɹuːd/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Abstrude is a verb meaning (obsolete, transitive) To thrust away.
Meaning
(obsolete, transitive) To thrust away.
Example Sentences
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.
.[…] 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.'
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.”
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; […]
Word Forms
- abstrudes
- abstruding
- abstruded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include abjure, absterse, abstain, abscind, absist, abduce.
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