Abstrude
//əbˈstɹuːd// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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
More examples"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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