Subduce

//səbˈdjuːs// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To withdraw; to take away. obsolete

    "But Suetonins Paulinus , who next was sent hither , esteem'd a Souldier equall to the best in that age , for two years together went on prosperoully ; both confirming what was got , and subducing onward"

  2. 2
    To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct, to subtract obsolete

    "If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should by the Operation of the Understanding subduce ten."

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"But Suetonins Paulinus , who next was sent hither , esteem'd a Souldier equall to the best in that age , for two years together went on prosperoully ; both confirming what was got , and subducing onward"

Etymology

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

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take away

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