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Webster 1913 Edition
Substract
Sub-stract′
,Verb.
T.
To subtract; to withdraw.
[Obs.]
Barrow.
Webster 1828 Edition
Substract
SUBSTRACT'
,Verb.
T.
Note.--Substract was formerly used in analogy with abstract. But in modern usage, it is written according to the Latin, subtract. See this word and its derivatives.
Definition 2024
substract
substract
English
Verb
substract (third-person singular simple present substracts, present participle substracting, simple past and past participle substracted)
- (obsolete) To subtract.
References
- substract in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “substract” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.