SUBDUCE, SUBDUCT verb transitive [Latin , sub and duco, to draw.] 1. To withdraw; to take away. Or from my side subducting, took perhaps more than enough. 2. To subtract by arithmetical operation. If out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations we should SUBDUCT ten--
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