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subducemid-15c., "to delete;" 1540s, "to withdraw oneself" (from a place, allegiance, etc.), from Latin subducere "to draw away, withdraw, remove," from sub- (see sub-) + ducere [..]
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subduce
To withdraw; to take away.
Milton
To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.
* Sir M. Hale
*: If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten.
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