ppl. a. [f. ABSCOND + -ED.] Concealed, hidden away; secluded, secret.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. col. 83. The Author was living in an absconded Condition in Fifteen hundred fifty & six.
1710. Shaftesbury, Charact. (1737), II. III. ii. 402. I am now oblig’d to go far in the pursuit of Beauty; which lies very absconded and deep.
1834. R. M. Milnes (Lord Houghton), Mem. of Many Sc., 42. The eager heart was wont To lead us to the boar’s absconded rest, Unwearied.
