[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abstracted \abstract"ed\, a.
   1. separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
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            the evil abstracted stood from his own evil.
                                                  --milton.
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   2. separated from matter; abstract; ideal. obs.
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   3. abstract; abstruse; difficult. obs. --johnson.
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   4. inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. "an
      abstracted scholar." --johnson.
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[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abstract \abstract"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. abstracted; p. pr.
    vb. n. abstracting. see abstract, a.
   1913 webster
   1. to withdraw; to separate; to take away.
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            he was incapable of forming any opinion or
            resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. --sir
                                                  w. scott.
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   2. to draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his
      was wholly abstracted by other objects.
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            the young stranger had been abstracted and silent.
                                                  --blackw. mag.
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   3. to separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to
      consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a
      quality or attribute. --whately.
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   4. to epitomize; to abridge. --franklin.
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   5. to take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to
      abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.
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            von rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins
            from the harness.                     --w. black.
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   6. chem. to separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts
      of a substance, by distillation or other chemical
      processes. in this sense extract is now more generally
      used.
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see also:
abstracted abstracting abstract 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

abstracted
     adj 1: taken out of or separated from; "possibility
            is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"-
            a.n.whitehead syn: removed
     2: lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare";
        "an absentminded professer"; "the scatty glancing quality
        of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence" syn: absent,
         absentminded, scatty
see also:
removed absent absentminded scatty 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

78 moby thesaurus words for "abstracted":
   abbreviated, abridged, absent, absentminded, absorbed, bemused,
   bobbed, buried in thought, capsule, capsulized, castle-building,
   clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut short,
   daydreaming, daydreamy, digested, distrait, docked, dreaming,
   dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elided, elliptic, elsewhere,
   engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, faraway,
   half-awake, heedless, immersed in thought, in a reverie,
   in the clouds, inattentive, intent, introspective, lost,
   lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, mowed, mown,
   museful, musing, napping, nipped, nodding, oblivious, occupied,
   pensive, pipe-dreaming, pollard, polled, preoccupied, pruned, rapt,
   reaped, shaved, sheared, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed,
   somewhere else, stargazing, taken up, transported, trimmed,
   unconscious, unmindful, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

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