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1828 Definition

DISTRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See draw and drag. The old participle distraught is obsolete.]

1. Literally, to draw apart; to pull in different directions, and separate. Hence, to divide; to separate; and hence, to throw into confusion. Sometimes in a literal sense. Contradictory or mistaken orders may distract an army.

2. To turn or draw from any object; to divert from any point, towards another point or toward various other objects; as, to distract the eye or the attention.

If he cannot avoid the eye of the observer, he hopes to distract it by a multiplicity of the object.

3. To draw towards different objects; to fill with different considerations; to perplex; to confound; to harass; as, to distract the mind with cares; you distract me with your clamor.

While I suffer thy terrors, I am distracted. Psalm 88.

4. To disorder the reason; the derange the regular operations of intellect; to render raving or furious; most frequently used in the participle distracted.

DISTRACT, a. Mad. [Not in use.]

1913 Definition
Distract (distract)
a.(?)
Dis*tract"
[L. distractus, p. p. of distrahere to draw asunder; dis- + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. Distraught.]
  1. Separated; drawn asunder.
    [Obs.]
  2. Insane; mad.
    [Obs.] Drayton.
  3. To draw apart or away] to divide; to disjoin.

    A city . . . distracted from itself. Fuller.

  4. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention.

    Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. Goldsmith.

  5. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.

    Horror and doubt distract
    His troubled thoughts.
    Milton.

  6. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted.

    A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. Shak.


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