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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