Dirempt

/dɪˈɹɛmpt/ · adjective

Meaning

(obsolete, past participial) Distinct; separate; secrete; divided..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, past participial) Distinct; separate; secrete; divided.
2. (transitive, principally in philosophy) To separate; to divide; to break off.

Example Sentences

Tacitus, that Bobotria & Blota haue ſundry paſſages into the sea and are clerely dirempt one from the other

But does it not seem more proper to call this the feeling's quality than its content? Does not the word 'content' suggest that the feeling has already dirempted itself as an act from its content as an object?

What is thus dirempted, which constitutes the parts thought of as in the law, exhibits itself as a stable existence; and if the parts are considered without the Notion of the inner difference, then space time, or distance and velocity, which appear as moments of gravity, are just as indifferent and without necessary relation to one another as to gravity itself, or, as this simple gravity is indifferent to them, or, again, as simple electricity is indifferent to positive and negative electricity.

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• dirempts
• dirempting
• dirempted

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