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dirempt

/dɪˈɹɛmpt/

dirempt adjective: distinct; separate; secrete; divided.

Adjective

dirempt (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, past participial) Distinct; separate; secrete; divided.
    • Tacitus, that Bobotria & Blota haue ſundry paſſages into the sea and are clerely dirempt one from the other1575, John Stow, Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles
    Synonyms:
    dirempted

Verb

dirempt (third-person singular simple present dirempts, present participle dirempting, simple past and past participle dirempted)

  1. (transitive, principally in philosophy) To separate; to divide; to break off.
    • But does it not seem more proper to call this the feeling's quality than its content? Does not the word 'content' suggest that the feeling has already dirempted itself as an act from its content as an object?1909, William James, “The Function of Cognition”, in The Meaning of Truth
    • What is thus dirempted, which constitutes the parts thought of as in the law, exhibits itself as a stable existence; and if the parts are considered without the Notion of the inner difference, then space time, or distance and velocity, which appear as moments of gravity, are just as indifferent and...1977 [1807], A.V. Miller, transl., Phenomenology of Spirit, translation of original by Georg Hegel, paragraph 161

Synonyms of dirempt

Forms of dirempt

third-person singular presentdirempts
present participledirempting
past participledirempted
pastdirempted

Origin of dirempt

From the Latin diremptus (“separated, divided”), the past participle of dirimō (“to separate, divide”), formed as dir- (prevocalic variant of dis- (“apart, asunder”)) + emō (“to take”); compare dirempt².

From the Latin *diremptō, frequentative of dirimō.

Words formed from dirempt

Questions about dirempt

What does dirempt mean?
Dirempt means distinct; separate; secrete; divided.
What part of speech is dirempt?
Dirempt can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce dirempt?
Dirempt is pronounced /dɪˈɹɛmpt/.

Words near dirempt in the dictionary

  1. directs
  2. direful
  3. direfully
  4. direfulness
  5. direly
  6. dirempt
  7. dirempted
  8. dirempting
  9. diremption
  10. diremptions
  11. dirempts

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