adempt

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verb

To take away.

OriginLatin ademptum →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person adempts · participle present adempting · participle past adempted · past adempted

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo take away.

    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

Origin

  1. Latinademptum
  2. Englishadempt

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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