ppl. a. [f. ABSORB + -ED.] lit. Swallowed up; imbibed. fig. Engrossed or entirely occupied.

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1763.  H. Walpole, Corresp. (1837), II. 198. Monsieur de Nivernois had been absorbed all day … translating my verses.

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1862.  Lond. Rev., 23 Aug., 156. Large sums are paid … to the officers of the absorbed company.

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1865.  Dickens, Our Mut. Fr., I. 2. He eyed the coming tide with an absorbed attention.

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1871.  B. Stewart, Heat, Introd. The laws which regulate the distribution of absorbed heat.

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1876.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. x. 518. Absorbed in his own meditations.

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