prescind
To abstract (from); to dismiss from consideration.
intransitive
In making real-world contracts with someone else, for whatever purpose, we expressly prescind from the other party's personal, private motivation. I may agree to mow your lawn for ten dollars because I like mowing lawns, because it is the only skill I possess, because it is the only skill that anyone else is willing to purchase from me, and so endlessly on. But all you can demand from me is a mown lawn
To pay exclusive attention to.
transitive
The result of Attention, by concentrating the mind upon certain qualities, is thus to withdraw or abstract it from all else. In technical language, we are said to prescind the phenomena which we exclusively consider. To prescind, to attend, and to abstract, are merely different but correlative names for the same process; and the first two are nearly convertible. When we are said to prescind a quality, we are merely supposed to attend to that quality exclusively.
Where it comes from
From Latin praescindō (“to cut off in front”), from prae- (“before”) + scindō (“split, divide”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry prescind (CC BY-SA 4.0).