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.
   • 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

• “adempt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• tamped