adempt
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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
- 1549, Hugh Latimer, "To the reader" in The Second Sermon preached at Westminster, 15 March 1549
References[edit]
- adempt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913