abstracted

English

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abstracted (comparative more abstracted, superlative most abstracted)

Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]^[1]
- (Can we date this quote?), Milton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
  The evil abstracted stood from his own evil.
(now rare) Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]^[1]
(now rare) Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]^[1]
Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]^[1]
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 57:
  I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?
...an abstracted scholar...

separated or disconnected

inattentive to surrounding objects

abstracted

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstracted”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.