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verb

Deduct v. t. (past & past part. deducted; pres. part. deducting)

To lead forth or out. (Obs.) "A people deducted out of the city of Philippos."

To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; often with from or out of. "Deduct what is but vanity, or dress." "Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops." "We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in... infancy."

To reduce; to diminish. (Obs.) "Do not deduct it to days."

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... from. After this, leaving home at four o'clock in the morning, and running about the streets, first with morning papers and then with evening, they might come home late at night with twenty or thirty cents apiece—possibly as much as forty cents. From this they had to deduct their carfare, since the distance was so great; but after a while they made friends, and learned still more, and then they would save their carfare. They would get on a car when the conductor was not looking, and hide in the crowd; and three times out of four he would not ask for their ...

— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

... voted the subsidy to the king of Denmark; and they empowered their sovereign to defray certain extraordinary expenses not specified in the estimates. To answer these uncommon grants, they imposed a land-tax of four shillings in the pound; and enabled his majesty to deduct twelve hundred thousand pounds from the sinking fund; in a word, the expense of the war, during the course of the ensuing year, amounted to about four millions. The session was closed on the twenty-ninth day of April, when the king thanked the commons for the ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... another lance. The same was repeated to E C, when the last lance was fixed. He then had a parallelogram; and as the distance from F to E was exactly equal to the distance from E to G, he had but to measure the space between the bank of the river and E, and deduct it from E G, and he obtained the width ...

— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat

... with rack and pinnion, and two stops; where rack and pinnion is not required, deduct ...

— Notes and Queries, No. 179. Saturday, April 2, 1853. • Various

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— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston

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