产权简史

[经] 产权状况节略

Abstract \Ab"stract`\, n. [See {Abstract}, a.]
1. That which comprises or concentrates in itself the
essential qualities of a larger thing or of several
things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a
treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.

An abstract of every treatise he had read. --Watts.

Man, the abstract
Of all perfection, which the workmanship
Of Heaven hath modeled. --Ford.

2. A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a
subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated
things.

3. An abstract term.

The concretes ``father'' and ``son'' have, or might
have, the abstracts ``paternity'' and ``filiety.''
--J. S. Mill.

4. (Med.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance
mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part
of the abstract represents two parts of the original
substance.

{Abstract of title} (Law), an epitome of the evidences of
ownership.

Syn: Abridgment; compendium; epitome; synopsis. See
{Abridgment}.