 
		
		Definition of abstract:
		
	
		
								
				"watts  An abstract of every treatise he had read."
			
			
	
		
								
				"17th century: Noris, The Oxford Dictionary - The more abstract we are from the body ... the more fit we shall be to behold divine light."
			
			
	
		
								
				"walter Scott - He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices."