Lewis Short
(verb) : absento, āre, 1, and n. id..
* Act., to cause one to be absent, i. e. to send away: patriis procul absentaverit astris,Claud. Pros. 3, 213 (others read amandaverit, or patriisque procul mandaverit), Cod. Th. 12, 1, 48.
* Neutr., to be absent: absentans Ulixes,Sid. 9, 13 fin.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary