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Subduct   Listen
verb
Subduct, Subduce  v. t.  
1.
To withdraw; to take away.
2.
To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct. "If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten."






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"Subduct" Quotes from Famous Books



... the legality of taking tithes: the only mode of discovering that fervid love of decimation which I know you to possess would be to tender you an oath "against that damnable doctrine, that it is lawful for a spiritual man to take, abstract, appropriate, subduct, or lead away the tenth calf, sheep, lamb, ox, pigeon, duck," &c., &c., &c., and every other animal that ever existed, which of course the lawyers would take care to enumerate. Now this oath I am sure you would rather die than take; and so the ...
— Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays • Sydney Smith



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