dirempt

• enPR: dĭrĕmptʹ, IPA^(key): /dɪˈɹɛmpt/

From the Latin diremptus (“separated, divided”), the past participle of dirimō (“I separate, divide”), formed as dir- (prevocalic variant of dis- (“apart, asunder”)) + emō (“I take”); compare dirempt².

dirempt (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, past participial) Distinct; separate; secrete; divided.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Stow to this entry?)

• dirempted (past participial adjective)

From the Latin *diremptō, frequentative of dirimō.

dirempt (third-person singular simple present dirempts, present participle dirempting, simple past and past participle dirempted)

1. (transitive, principally in philosophy) To separate; to divide; to break off.
   • 1909, William James, “The Function of Cognition”, in The Meaning of Truth‎:

     But does it not seem more proper to call this the feeling's quality than its content? Does not the word 'content' suggest that the feeling has already dirempted itself as an act from its content as an object?

   • 1977 [1807], A.V. Miller, translator, Phenomenology of Spirit, translation of original by Georg Hegel:

     What is thus dirempted, which constitutes the parts thought of as in the law, exhibits itself as a stable existence; and if the parts are considered without the Notion of the inner difference, then space time, or distance and velocity, which appear as moments of gravity, are just as indifferent and without necessary relation to one another as to gravity itself, or, as this simple gravity is indifferent to them, or, again, as simple electricity is indifferent to positive and negative electricity.

• dirempted (past participial adjective)
• diremption

• diriment

• “†diˈrempt, ppl. a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
• OED2 opere citato, “diˈrempt, v.”