Dirempt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɪˈɹɛmpt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Dirempt is an adjective meaning (transitive, principally in philosophy) To separate; to divide; to break off.
Meaning
(transitive, principally in philosophy) To separate; to divide; to break off.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, past participial) Distinct; separate; secrete; divided.
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.
Word Forms
- dirempts
- dirempting
- dirempted
Synonyms for dirempt
Depending on context, synonyms include dirempted.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include secrete, distract, dissite, disterminate, semoted, parted.
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