absume
English
Etymology
Latin absūmere, present active infinitive of absūmō (“diminish”); formed from ab (“from, away from”) + sūmō (“take”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
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Verb
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- (transitive, obsolete) To consume gradually; to waste away. [Attested from the late 16th century until the mid 18th century.][2]
References
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absume”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) absūme