abstract thought ( synonym found)

Definition of abstract thought:

°An abridgement or summary.
"Isaac Watts -- An abstract of every treatise he had read."
°Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else.
"Ford -- Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled."
°(obsolete) Extracted.
°Considered apart from any application to a particular object; removed from; apart from; separate; abstracted.
"17th century: Noris, The Oxford Dictionary - The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light."
°To separate; to remove; to take away.
"Walter Scott - He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices."
°To withdraw.

Definition of abstract thought:

°An abridgement or summary.
"Isaac Watts -- An abstract of every treatise he had read."
°Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of something else.
"Ford -- Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled."
°(obsolete) Extracted.
°Considered apart from any application to a particular object; removed from; apart from; separate; abstracted.
"17th century: Noris, The Oxford Dictionary - The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light."
°To separate; to remove; to take away.
"Walter Scott - He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices."
°To withdraw.

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