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English → English (gcide) Definition: Abstract of title Abstract \Ab"stract`\, n. [See Abstract, a.] 1. That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. [1913 Webster] An abstract of every treatise he had read. --Watts. [1913 Webster] Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. --Ford. [1913 Webster] 2. A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things. [1913 Webster] 3. An abstract term. [1913 Webster] The concretes “father” and “son” have, or might have, the abstracts “paternity” and “filiety.” --J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster] 4. (Med.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. [1913 Webster] Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership. [1913 Webster] Syn: Abridgment; compendium; epitome; synopsis. See Abridgment. [1913 Webster]