Abstrude

//əbˈstɹuːd// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To thrust away. obsolete, transitive

    "Thus it is with regard to the elementary substance of fire; dispensed, perhaps, to every thing corporeal, but hid deepest in those substances which are most densely compacted. It is intimately abstruded in what poetical licence terms the Veins of Flint; […]"

Example

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"Thus it is with regard to the elementary substance of fire; dispensed, perhaps, to every thing corporeal, but hid deepest in those substances which are most densely compacted. It is intimately abstruded in what poetical licence terms the Veins of Flint; […]"

Etymology

From Latin abstrūdō (“push away, hide”). See abstruse.

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