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)
- To withdraw; to take away.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.
- Sir M. Hale
- If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten.
- Sir M. Hale
Related terms
- subduct
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
- second-person singular present active imperative of subdūcō