Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an abstractive manner; in or by itself; abstractly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself.
Etymologies
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abstractive + -ly
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Examples
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In the latter case, the more substantial passage, he gives a somewhat Scotistic definition: "Intuitive and abstractive cognition are not distinguished according to having a species or not, but only according to the disposition of the object, because if the object is present, the species represents it intuitively; if absent, it represents it abstractively."
Francis of Marchia Schabel, Christopher 2008
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