This it effects not by accumulation of detail, but by abstracting from it.

She saw Peter abstracting the money, and so informed Mrs. Crawford.

I am far indeed from abstracting from M. le Duc d'Orleans all gratitude.

Moreover, there are no seats, and the custodian insists upon abstracting one's walking-stick.

Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical.

The sun, the air, and the earth are constantly abstracting from us our vital forces.

So to my office all the morning abstracting the Duke's instructions in the margin thereof.

Pregnancy outcomes and complications were obtained by abstracting the antenatal, delivery, and newborn medical records.

That ended his last chance of abstracting a few more thrills from the borrowed treasure.

But if one employs them without being conscious of abstracting, they acquire a fictitious existence.

Morely flipped through the routine matter, occasionally selecting a report or letter and abstracting data.

When the ha'nt begins abstracting chickens from the oven I think it's time to investigate.

Well, take the risk of abstracting one day's journals, and have them ready for me.

The phenomenon may be described by selecting its central or decisive characteristics and abstracting its accidentals.

Coleridge says: Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical.

Little Fuzzy was actually making a symbolic representation, by abstracting the distinguishing characteristic of the damnthing.