abstracter

English

abstracter (plural abstracters)

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

a title abstractor
Someone that finds and summarizes information for legal or insurance work.
An accounting clerk who records payroll deductions.

abstracter

(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.

Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstracter”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

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