Word Meanings - ABSENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.

ABSENTATION
The act of absenting one's self. Sir W. Hamilton.
ABSENTEEISM
The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
ABSENTEE
One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.
ABSENTANEOUS
Pertaining to absence.
HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
ABSENT-MINDED
Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness, n. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly, adv.
ABSENTER
One who absents one's self.
ABSENTNESS
The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller.
ABSENTMENT
The state of being absent; withdrawal. Barrow.
ABSENTLY
In an absent or abstracted manner.
ABSENT
1. Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. "Expecting absent friends." Shak. 2. Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent. 3. Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.