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Webster 1913 Edition

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Verb.

[L.

subducere

subductum

;

sub

under +

ducere

to lead, to draw. See

, and cf.

To withdraw; to take away.

Milton.

To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.

If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should

subduce

ten.

Sir M. Hale.

, SUBDUCT,

Verb.

[L., sub and duco, to draw.]

To withdraw; to take away.

Or from my side subducting, took perhaps more than enough.

To subtract by arithmetical operation.

If out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations we should subduct ten--