In-the-abstract meaning

We think of things not in the abstract elements of the things themselves, but in connexion with, and in language which presupposes, other things.

The neuter term brahma is used in the Rigveda both in the abstract sense of "devotion, worship," and in the concrete sense of "devotional rite, prayer, hymn."

Now he develops a twofold character: as the receiver of the spolia opima he becomes associated with war, especially in the double character of the stayer of rout (Stator) and the giver of victory (Victor), in which last capacity he later gives birth to an offshoot in the abstract conception of the goddess Victoria.

Mathematical Philosophy, about quantitative things in the abstract.