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The term abstract comes from the Latin word abstractus, which literally means "drawn away".
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Ceterum socius et administer omnium consiliorum assumitur Scaurus, qui tametsi a principio, [173] plerisque ex factione ejus corruptis, acerrime regem impugnaverat, tamen magnitudine pecuniae a bono honestoque in pravum abstractus est.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Scaurus ... tametsi a principio, plerisque ex factione ejus conruptis, acerrume regem inpugnaverat, tamen magnitudine pecuniae a bono honestoque in pravom abstractus est.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Alchindi philosophi de quinque essentiis, ex verbis Aristotelis abstractus liber.
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts John Dee 1567
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944 Magnitudine pecuniæ à bono honestoque in pravum abstractus est. —
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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