Toki Pona is reductive.
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Reductive
//ɹɪˈdʌktɪv//
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On the relative reductive powers of different classes of American coals, as demonstrated by the experiments with oxide of lead.
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It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
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But then beside the primary and direct sense of the text, the ancients commonly supposed that there was a reductive or anagogical meaning, in which it might be taken.
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