Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Taken away.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle obsolete Taken away.
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- verb transitive, obsolete To
take away .
Etymologies
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From Latin ademptum, past participle of adimere ("to take away").
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