ppl. a. [f. ABSENT v. + -ED.] Withdrawn; retired; absent.
1548. Geste, Priv. Masse, 83. He meanethe not that Christes body is absented from hys supper.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 201. Imboldned by your absented maner of living.
1646. Quarles, Shepherds Eclog., i. But tell me Gallio … to whose keep Hast thou committed thy absented sheep.
