adempt

English

Etymology

From Latin ademptum, past participle of adimo (“I take away”).

Verb

adempt (third-person singular simple present adempts, present participle adempting, simple past and past participle adempted)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To take away.
    • Hugh Latimer
      without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt

References
  • adempt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams
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