a. 1. Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart. [ 1913 Webster ]
The evil abstracted stood from his own evil. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Separated from matter; abstract; ideal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Abstract; abstruse; difficult. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
4. Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind. “An abstracted scholar.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being abstracted; abstract character. [ 1913 Webster ]