abstracter

English

Alternative forms

• abstractor

Etymology

From abstract +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈstɹæk.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

abstracter (plural abstracters)

1. One who abstracts, or makes an abstract, as in records or documents. [First attested in the late 17^th century.]

   an abstractor of title

   a title abstractor

2. Someone that finds and summarizes information for legal or insurance work.
3. An accounting clerk who records payroll deductions.

Adjective

abstracter

1. (rare) comparative form of abstract: more abstract
   • 1698, John Norris, Treatises upon several subjects: viz.: Reason and religion, or, the grounds and measures of devotion ; reflections upon the conduct of human life ..., page 316:

     Absurdity, which perhaps may signifie more with some Apprehensions, than an abstracter way of reasoning : It is this, That upon this Supposition it would follow, chat if God himself should impose any Command upon a Creature, […]

   • 1991, James Matisoff, quoted in Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Bernd Heine, Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, John Benjamins Publishing (→ISBN), page 384:

     […] bleaching, which nicely captures the partial effacement of a morpheme's semantic features, the stripping away of some of its precise content so it can be used in an abstracter, grammatical-hardware-like way.

Anagrams

• reabstract