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† 1. Sc. Not annulled or repealed. Obs.
1572–3. Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 185. The saidis first charter and confirmatioun following thairupoun standing unreducit.
1606. [see UNQUARRELLED].
a. 1639. Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot., VI. (1655), 307. The sentence of forfeiture … stood unreduced.
2. Unsubdued; not taken by force.
1689. Apol. Fail. Walker’s Acc., 20. Whether some Men are not satisfy’d … Ireland be entirely lost,… and remain unreduc’d for some years, rather than Dissenters be employ’d in retrieving it.
1884. Leeds Merc. (Weekly Suppl.), 15 Nov., 6/2. Stirling Castle, the chief place of strength…, still remained unreduced.
3. Med. Not restored to a normal state.
1749. T. Gataker, Le Dran’s Operat. Surg., 101. When an intestine is gangrened and remains unreduced.
1782. Monro, Anat., 39. The annihilation … of the head of a bone…, after an unreduced fracture.
1837. Quain, Elem. Anat. (ed. 4), 57. Those cases of unreduced dislocations where the tendons slide over bones.
1857. T. Watson, Lect. Physic (ed. 4), I. 35. The dislocation remaining unreduced.
4. Not dissolved or comminuted.
1782. Phil. Trans., LXXIII. 63. Dr. Priestley having … dissolved mercury in the nitrous acid,… constantly found a considerable proportion of it unreduced.
1815. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 609. Those [lands] which contain a large proportion of unreduced vegetable matter.
1880. J. Dunbar, Pract. Papermaker, 24. The rags must … be … drawn out into fibre without having the smallest particle of rag unreduced to half-stuff.
5. Not brought down to simple terms; not applied to some use.
1798. Hutton, Course Math., I. 251. The rule may be applied at once to an unreduced equation.
1827. Pollok, Course T., VIII. 213. The bigot theologian, in minute Distinctions skilled, and doctrines unreduced To practice.
6. Unlessened, undiminished.
1830. Bentham, Offic. Apt. Maximized, Further Extr. Const. Code, 15. The emptional mode; according to which, mention is made of the greatest sum he will give for it, if unreduced.
1885. in Longm. Mag., March (1900), 434. To enable them to maintain their existence, with unreduced vitality, against the severities of the climate.
