subduce

English

Etymology

Latin subdūcō (“I remove; I withdraw”).

Verb

subduce (third-person singular simple present subduces, present participle subducing, simple past and past participle subduced)

  1. To withdraw; to take away.
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  2. To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.
    • Sir M. Hale
      If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for subduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

subdūce

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of subdūcō
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