English

edit

Etymology

edit

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

Verb

edit

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

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To take away.
    • 1549, Hugh Latimer, “To the reader”, in The Second Sermon preached at Westminster, 15 March 1549:
      without any sinister suspicion of any thing in the same being added or adempt

References

edit

Anagrams

edit