subduce

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səbˈdjuːs/, /səbˈduːs/

Verb

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

1. To withdraw; to take away.
   • 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:

     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. To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

subdūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of subdūcō

Spanish

Verb

subduce

1. inflection of subducir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative