Now rare. [ad. L. subductio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subdūcĕre to SUBDUCE.] The action of subducting.
1. Withdrawal, removal.
a. 1620. J. Dyke, Sel. Serm. (1640), 79. A quenching of fire by subduction of fuell.
1625. J. Robinson, Observ. Div. & Mor., lv. 282. Unto whom … thought and care, in one night brought grey hayr, by subduction of nourishment.
1630. Bp. Hall, Occas. Medit., § 66 (1634), 145. Oh that we were not more capable of distrust, then thine omnipotent hand is of wearinesse and subduction.
1730. Hist. Lit., I. 449. Fearing the Subduction of the King’s Bounty, which had hitherto supported it.
1839. Blackw. Mag., XLVI. 542. The withdrawal of a patriot from Parliament … is the subduction of parliamentary force.
1854. Bucknill, Unsoundn. Mind, 25. Terms signifying deprivation or subduction.
† b. Surreptitious or secret withdrawal. Obs.
a. 1646. J. Gregory, Posthuma (1649), 88. The Corruption proceeded not by subduction from the Hebrew, but the accession to the Greek Scripture.
1721. Bailey, Subduction, a taking privately from.
2. Subtraction, deduction.
1579. Digges, Stratiot., I. xv. 25. Subduction is the taking of the one Fraction from the other.
1608. Bp. Hall, Epist., I. vi. 284. I haue noted foure ranks of commonly-named Miracles: from which, if you make a iust subduction, how few of our wonders shall remaine either to beleefe or admiration!
1664. Evelyn, Pomona, Pref. 4. Brought thither without charge, or extraordinary subductions.
1706. W. Jones, Syn. Palmar. Matheseos, 16. Addition and Subduction, serve Reciprocally to prove each other.
1734. Berkeley, Analyst, § 5, Wks. 1871, III. 260. By the continual addition or subduction of infinitely small quantities.
1856. Masson, Ess. Biog. & Crit., 109. The property remaining … after the subduction of his own share as the eldest son.
† 3. A drawing down or away (see quot. 1612); the evacuation (of excrement). (= Gr. ὑπαγωγή.)
1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1653), 274. Subduction is an abstraction of juyces, oyles, and other liquid matters downward by percolation, filteration, and the like.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, vii. 111. They make the belly soluble, and helpe the subduction of excrements.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. xii. 446/2.
4. The action of subduing or fact of being subdued; subdual, subjection. (Const. to.)
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, I. I. 11. Contriving, if not the destruction, at least the subduction of the Temporal Power to the Spiritual.
1717. L. Howel, Desiderius (ed. 3), 157. Subduction of the Flesh.
1786. Francis the Philanthropist, II. 33. The … celebrated fair, who boasts the subduction of whole regiments by the power of her charms.
1824. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, III. 82. Edward assembled a large army … for the subduction of Dumfries-shire. Ibid., 472. The ruling clergy … brought on the subduction of the kingdom.
15. ‘A reckoning or account’ (1656 Blount).
