Abstraho, ábstrahis, pen. cor. abstraxi, abstractum, abstráhere. To withdraw: to pull away: to take away: to separate: to take by force.Aliquem ab alio abstrahere.Terent.To withdrawe a man from one, whether he will or no.A malis abstrahere.Cic.To deliuere from yll.Abstrahere & auocare.Cic.A disciplina abstrahere. Cicero. To withdrawe or pull from learning.Ciuitatem seruitio abstrahere.Cic.To deliuer.A conspectu abstrahere.Cic.A consuetudine.Cicer.To withdrawe from. A ratione. Cic. A rebus gerendis. Cic.A sensumentis.Cic.To turne him from the opinion of his minde. Abstrahere se corpore.Cic.To turne or withdrawe him selfe from bodily things.Se solicitudine abstrahere.Cic.To withdraw from care. Abstrahere aliquem de complexu.Cic.By force to drawe or take away. Abstrahere è sinu & gremio patriæ.Cic.To take or pull away.Abstrahere ex amplissimorum virorum comitato.Cic. Abstrahere aliquem ad bellicas laudes.Cic.By perswasion to withdraw to martiall prowesse. Abstrahere in seruitutem. Cæs. To leade into seruitude and bondage.
abs-trăho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. (abstraxe = abstraxisse, Lucr. 3, 650), to draw away from a place or person, to drag or pull away.I.Lit.A. In gen.: ut me a Glycerio miserum abstrahat, Ter. And. 1, 5, 8; so, liberos ab aliquo, Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 5: aliquem de matris complexu avellere atque abstrahere, Cic. Font. 21 (17): aliquem e gremio e sinuque patriae, id. Cael. 24, 59; for which, aliquem gremio, Ov. M. 13, 658: aliquem raptim ex oculis hominum, Liv. 39, 49, 12: naves e portu, id. 37, 27, 6 (al. a portu): aliquem a conspectu omnium in altum, Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145 (corresp. with, a terra abripuit).—Absol.: bona civium Romanorum diripiunt ... in servitutem abstrahunt, Caes. B. G. 7, 42, 3: navem remulco abstraxit, id. B. C. 2, 23. —B. Esp., to withdraw, alienate from a party: copias a Lepido, Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 3: Germanicum suetis legionibus, Tac. A. 2, 5.II.Trop., to draw away, withdraw, divert: animus se a corpore abstrahet, Cic. Rep. 6, 26: a rebus gerendis senectus abstrahit (for which in the preced., avocare), id. de Sen. 6: me a nullius commodo, id. Arch. 6, 12: aliquem a malis, non a bonis, id. Tusc. 1, 34 fin. al.: magnitudine pecuniae a bono honestoque in pravum abstractus est, Sall. J. 29, 2: omnia in duas partes abstracta sunt, respublica, quae media fuerat, dilacerata, id. ib. 41, 5.—Hence, abstractus, a, um, P. a.; in the later philosophers and grammarians, abstract (opp. concrete): quantitas, Isid. Or. 2, 24, 14.