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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)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To consume gradually; to waste away. [Attested from the late 16th century until the mid 18th century.][2]

References

  1. 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
  2. 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

Latin

Verb

absūme

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of absūmō