adempt
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ademptum, past participle of adimo (“I take away”).
Verb[edit]
adempt (third-person singular simple present adempts, present participle adempting, simple past and past participle adempted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To take away.
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, “To the reader”, in The Second Sermon preached at Westminster, 15 March 1549:
- without any sinister suspicion of any thing in the same being added or adempt
References[edit]
- “adempt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.