prescind

Verb

prescind (third-person singular simple present prescinds, present participle prescinding, simple past and past participle prescinded)

1. (intransitive) To abstract (from); to dismiss from consideration.
   • In making real-world contracts with someone else, for whatever purpose, we expressly prescind from the other party's personal, private motivation. I may agree to mow your lawn for ten dollars because I like mowing lawns, because it is the only skill I possess, because it is the only skill that...1998 Fall, Alan Ryan, “In a Conversational Idiom.”, in Social Research, volume 65, number 3, pages 473–489
   • But one cannot prescind from humanity. There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.2015, Pope Francis I, Laudato Si': Encyclical Letter on care for our common home
2. (transitive) To pay exclusive attention to.
   • The result of Attention, by concentrating the mind upon certain qualities, is thus to withdraw or abstract it from all else. In technical language, we are said to prescind the phenomena which we exclusively consider. To prescind, to attend, and to abstract, are merely different but correlative...c. 1838, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, edited by Henry Longueville Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Logic (Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic; volume 3), Blackwood, published 1860