dirempt

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭrĕmptʹ, IPA^(key): /dɪˈɹɛmpt/

Etymology 1

From the Latin diremptus (“separated, divided”), the past participle of dirimō (“I separate, divide”), formed as dir- (prevocalic variant of dis- (“apart, asunder”)) + emō (“I take”); compare dirempt².

Adjective

dirempt (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, past participial) Distinct; separate; secrete; divided.
   • 1575, John Stow, Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles:

     Tacitus, that Bobotria & Blota haue ſundry paſſages into the sea and are clerely dirempt one from the other

Synonyms

• dirempted (past participial adjective)

Etymology 2

From the Latin *diremptō, frequentative of dirimō.

Verb

dirempt (third-person singular simple present dirempts, present participle dirempting, simple past and past participle dirempted)

1. (transitive, principally in philosophy) To separate; to divide; to break off.
   • 1909, William James, “The Function of Cognition”, in The Meaning of Truth‎^[1]:

     But does it not seem more proper to call this the feeling's quality than its content? Does not the word 'content' suggest that the feeling has already dirempted itself as an act from its content as an object?

   • 1977 [1807], A.V. Miller, transl., Phenomenology of Spirit, translation of original by Georg Hegel, paragraph 161:

     What is thus dirempted, which constitutes the parts thought of as in the law, exhibits itself as a stable existence; and if the parts are considered without the Notion of the inner difference, then space time, or distance and velocity, which appear as moments of gravity, are just as indifferent and without necessary relation to one another as to gravity itself, or, as this simple gravity is indifferent to them, or, again, as simple electricity is indifferent to positive and negative electricity.

Derived terms

• dirempted (past participial adjective)
• diremption

Related terms

• diriment

References

• “†diˈrempt, ppl. a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
• OED2 opere citato, “diˈrempt, v.”