subduce

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

• IPA^(key): /səbˈdjuːs/, /səbˈduːs/

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

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, to subtract
   • 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.

• subduct

• “subduce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

subdūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of subdūcō

subduce

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