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Webster 1913 Edition
Absume
Ab-sume′
(ăb-sūm′)
, Verb.
T.
[L.
absumere
, absumptum
; ab
+ sumere
to take.] To consume gradually; to waste away.
[Obs.]
Boyle.
Definition 2024
absume
absume
English
Verb
absume (third-person singular simple present absumes, present participle absuming, simple past and past participle absumed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To consume gradually; to waste away. [Attested from the late 16th century until the mid 18th century.][2]
References
- ↑ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5), page 8
- 1 2 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 10