1832 H. Smith I. 115 A becoming awe..tended still farther to elevate a countenance so eminently etherealized by a pervading character of intellect and world-abstracted thought.
1898 i. 7 A world-abstracted monk in his solitary cell.
1999 N. Rescher (rev. ed.) x. 164 Natural science does not address itself to some world-abstracted realm of its own.