subduce

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To withdraw; to take away.
   • 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 onward1670, 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
2. (obsolete) To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct, to subtract
   • If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should by the Operation of the Understanding subduce ten.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, […]...