dirempt meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

dirempt

adj

/dɪˈɹɛmpt/

Etymology From the Latin diremptus (“separated, divided”), the past participle of dirimō (“to separate, divide”), formed as dir- (prevocalic variant of dis- (“apart, asunder”)) + emō (“to take”); compare dirempt².

Obsolete Distinct; separate; secrete; divided.

Past participial

Tacitus, that Bobotria & Blota haue ſundry paſſages into the sea and are clerely dirempt one from the other1575, John Stow, Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles:

Synonyms: dirempted

dirempt

verb

Etymology From the Latin *diremptō, frequentative of dirimō.

To separate; to divide; to break off.

Principally in philosophy

But does it not seem more proper to call this the feeling's quality than its content? Does not the word 'content' suggest that the feeling has already dirempted itself as an act from its content as an object?1909, William James, “The Function of Cognition”, in The Meaning of Truth:
What is thus dirempted, which constitutes the parts thought of as in the law, exhibits itself as a stable existence; and if the parts are considered without the Notion of the inner difference, then space time, or distance and velocity, which appear as moments of gravity, are just as indifferent and without necessary relation to one another as to gravity itself, or, as this simple gravity is indifferent to them, or, again, as simple electricity is indifferent to positive and negative electricity.1977 [1807], A.V. Miller, transl., Phenomenology of Spirit, translation of original by Georg Hegel, paragraph 161:

Derived terms: dirempted, diremption
Related terms: diriment