absit
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In the evening, after some difficulty, he persuaded his tutor to give him an absit to sleep at Huntingdon that night, and drove over there after dinner in a fly with Egerton, Castleton, and Grey."
- "Another associated matter was the subject of a discussion, on one occasion only, on the effect of an absit on a student's residence if he used it to be away from Cambridge from Saturday to Monday 'as is allowed at at least one College'."
- "An exeat was needed to be away for the night and, in theory at least, an absit for the greater part of the day."
- "The following week he wrot her. 'It is a most shameful thing that he should keep me on like this...I am awfully cross because now I am not able to come home for an absit [overnight leave] on Thursday which I very much wanted to do.'"
- "A portion of the fermented paste may be mixed with three parts of water and boiled, resulting in an absit."
- "The cooking gelatinizes the starch and makes the absit viscous."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin absit (“let (him or her) be absent”), the third-person singular present active subjunctive of absum (“be absent”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: absit, አብሲት
Usage
- British usage