adempt

English

Etymology

From Latin ademptum, past participle of adimere (“to take away”).

Verb

adempt (third-person singular simple present adempts, present participle adempting, simple past and past participle adempted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To take away.

   • Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. - Hugh Latimer.

References

• adempt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• tamped