[f. ABSTRACT v. + -ER1.] One who abstracts, separates, or makes an abstract.
1681. T. Mannyngham, Disc., 58. A very judicious abstracter would find it a hard task to be anything copious.
1732. Berkeley, Minute Philos. (1732), II. 126. An Abstracter or Refiner shall so analyse the most simple instantaneous Act of the Mind, as to distinguish therein divers Faculties and Tendencies.
1878. J. Thomson, Plenip. Key, 8. For what did our great High Pontiff call himself? was it not the Abstracter of the Quintessence?
