ppl. a. arch. [ad. L. absorpt-us pa. pple. of absorbē-re: see ABSORB.] The earlier equivalent of ABSORBED: swallowed up; rarely fig. engrossed.
1528. More, Dial. conc. Heresyes, IV. Wks. 1557, 267/1. For all other synnes (if belief and faith stand fast) be quite absorpt and supped vp he sayth in that fayth.
1626. T. H., trans. Caussin’s Holy Court, 89. To raigne in heauen for euer, and there to remayne absorpt, in an ocean of pleasures.
1736. J. H. Browne, Pipe of Tob. (1768), 119. Absorpt in yellow care, And at each puff imagination burns.
1839. Bailey, Festus (1848), xix. 210. Their souls absorpt of darkness.
