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abstract 1. denoting art characterized by geometric, formalized, or otherwise nonrepresentational qualities 2. Philosophy (of an idea) functioning for some empiricists as the meaning of a general term 3. an abstract painting, sculpture, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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From these considerations, I shall devote the first chapter of this Abstract to Variation under Domestication. Send me a written abstract of the case, and I will forward it to one of the official people in the Rue Jerusalem, who will do anything he can to oblige me. Not confining himself to theory, or permitting his faculties to rust, even at that early age, in mere abstract speculations, this promising lad commenced usurer on a limited scale at school; putting out at good interest a small capital of slate-pencil and marbles, and gradually extending his operations until they aspired to the copper coinage of this realm, in which he speculated to considerable advantage. |
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