abstracter

plural abstracters · alternative abstractor

1. One who abstracts, or makes an abstract, as in records or documents.First known use First attested in the late 17ᵗʰ century.

   a title abstractor

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   an abstractor of title

2. Someone that finds and summarizes information for legal or insurance work.
3. An accounting clerk who records payroll deductions.

1. comparativerarecomparative form of abstract: more abstract

   […] bleaching, which nicely captures the partial effacement of a morpheme's semantic features, the stripping away of some of its precise content so it can be used in an abstracter, grammatical-hardware-like way.

   1991, James Matisoff, quoted in Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Bernd Heine, Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, John Benjamins Publishing, page 384

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   Absurdity, which perhaps may signifie more with some Apprehensions, than an abstracter way of reasoning : It is this, That upon this Supposition it would follow, chat if God himself should impose any Command upon a Creature, […]

   1698, John Norris, Treatises upon several subjects: viz.: Reason and religion, or, the grounds and measures of devotion ; reflections upon the conduct of human life ..., page 316