abstracter
(æbˈstræktə(r))
[f. abstract v. + -er1.]
One who abstracts, separates, or makes an abstract.
| 1681 T. Manningham Disc. 58 A very judicious abstracter would find it a hard task to be anything copious. 1732 Berkeley Minute Philos. (1732) II. 126 An Abstracter or Refiner shall so analyse the most simple instantaneous Act of the Mind, as to distinguish therein divers Faculties and Tendencies. 1878 J. Thomson Plenip. Key 8 For what did our great High Pontiff call himself? was it not the Abstracter of the Quintessence? |