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† ˈofftract rare.
[irreg., app. f. off adv. + -tract in abstract, extract. Cf. Ger. abzug.]
That which is drawn or taken from something as its source.
1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. i. (1848) 77 The energies of language were easier, more at command, and, as the more immediate offtract [printed offtrack] of thought, naturally antecedent to the energies of art. Ibid. ii. 117 It is the mind of the artist which is visible in what he does: the one must necessarily be an offtract of the other. |