Meanings
present singular third person abstorts · participle present abstorting · participle past abstorted · past abstorted
- raretransitiveTo wrest by force or persuasion.
he has violently and wrongfully abstorted it from them.
1745, Christian Ludovici, Teutsch-englisches Lexicon, page 7673 more examples
It is needless to remark on the modesty of this epithet when assumed by men;—and by such men! by the lord Johns, and the lord Harrys, who even now abstort from us more homage than we yield to Heaven!
1858, Edward Nichols Dennys, The Alpha: A Revelation, But No Mystery, page 285How stillsome and flooth could suburbity be Were the gramsters abstorted by felo-de-se- For I daminate grams, and they scruciate me!
1936, Guy Innes, New Statesman and Nation - Volume 10; Volume 46, page 176[…] abstorting surplus staff wherever found necessary.
1978, The Bombay Civic Journal - Volume 25, page 7
Origin
- Latinabs-
- Englishabstort
From Latin abs- + tortus, past participle of torqueō (“I twist”).
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