ppl. a. Obs. [ad. L. ademptus pa. pple. of adimĕre; see ADEEM.] Taken away, removed.
1432–50. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls Ser.), I. 17. Part is adempte and loste þro the slawthe of wryters.
1549. Latimer, Seven Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (1869), 54. Without al sinister suspicion of anye thynge in the same added or adempte.
1561. Queen Esther (1862). Our lyfe and godes from us were adempte.
