adv. [f. ABSTRACT a. + -LY2.] In an abstract manner. a. In an abstract or epitome. b. In the abstract; absolutely; without reference to circumstances external.

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a. 1638.  Mede, Wks., 1672, I. ii. 5. Nomen tuum, God’s name … or His sacred Deity, to wit abstractly expressed.

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1717.  Bentley, Boyle Lect. (1735), ii. 392. Death, abstractly consider’d, is nothing but Privation.

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1852.  McCulloch, Tax. Fund. (ed. 2), I. iv. 125. Abstractly considered, nothing could be fairer than this proposal.

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