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▪ I. † diˈduce, v. Obs.
[ad. L. dīdūcĕre to pull asunder or apart, pull in two, f. di-1, dis- + dūcĕre to lead, draw. Used in 16–17th c., and sometimes confused in form with deduce.]
1. trans. To pull or draw away or apart.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 26 By this y⊇ arme is distaunt, and deduced from the ribbes. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 118 It is moved and diduced outward and foreward. a1696Scarburgh Euclid (1705) 8 The extreams of any crooked line may..be further and further diduced, till the crooked line be stretched to a strait line.
2. To dilate, expand, enlarge.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxv. §11. 124 The exposition is diduced into large comentaries. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 307 Its seed brayed and drunk in passum..diduces its passages.
▪ II. diduce, -ment
obs. (erron.) ff. deduce, -ment. |