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subduction|səbˈdʌkʃən|
[ad. L. subductio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subdūcĕre to subduce.]
The action of subducting.
1. a. Withdrawal, removal. Now rare.
a1620J. Dyke Sel. Serm. (1640) 79 A quenching of fire by subduction of fuell. 1625J. Robinson Observ. Div. & Mor. lv. 282 Unto whom..thought and care, in one night brought grey hayr, by subduction of nourishment. 1630Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. §66. (1634) 145 Oh that we were not more capable of distrust, then thine omnipotent hand is of wearinesse and subduction. 1730Hist. Lit. I. 449 Fearing the Subduction of the King's Bounty, which had hitherto supported it. 1839Blackw. Mag. XLVI. 542 The withdrawal of a patriot from Parliament..is the subduction of parliamentary force. 1854Bucknill Unsoundn. Mind 25 Terms signifying deprivation or subduction.
†b. Surreptitious or secret withdrawal. Obs.
a1646J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 88 The Corruption proceeded not by subduction from the Hebrew, but the accession to the Greek Scripture. 1721Bailey, Subduction, a taking privately from.
2. Subtraction, deduction. Now rare.
1579Digges Stratiot. i. xv. 25 Subduction is the taking of the one Fraction from the other. 1608Bp. 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! 1664Evelyn Pomona Pref. 4 Brought thither without charge, or extraordinary subductions. 1706W. Jones Syn. Palmar. Matheseos 16 Addition and Subduction, serve Reciprocally to prove each other. 1734Berkeley Analyst §5 Wks. 1871 III. 260 By the continual addition or subduction of infinitely small quantities. 1856Masson 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.)
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 274 Subduction is an abstraction of juyces, oyles, and other liquid matters downward by percolation, filteration, and the like. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 111 They make the belly soluble, and helpe the subduction of excrements. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xii. 446/2.
4. The action of subduing or fact of being subdued; subdual, subjection. (Const. to.) Now rare.
1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. i. 11 Contriving, if not the destruction, at least the subduction of the Temporal Power to the Spiritual. 1717L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 157 Subduction of the Flesh. 1786Francis the Philanthropist II. 33 The..celebrated fair, who boasts the subduction of whole regiments by the power of her charms. 1824G. 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.
†5. ‘A reckoning or account’ (1656 Blount).
6. Geol. [a. F. subduction (A. Amstutz 1951, in Arch. des Sci. IV. 326).] The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a lithospheric plate into the mantle beneath a neighbouring plate; subduction zone, a strip along which this is occurring.
1970Nature 14 Nov. 659/1 The lateral displacement of continents involves at least partial destruction in subduction zones of either the plate on which they are borne or of another plate. 1972Sci. Amer. Mar. 33/2 Along one edge of a crustal plate there is a subduction zone, usually marked by a trench. 1972,1975[see obduction 2]. 1975Sci. Amer. Nov. 89/2 The deepest trenches of the world's oceans, including the Java and Tonga trenches and all others associated with island arcs, mark the seaward boundary of subduction zones. 1980J. G. Navarra Earth, Space, & Time i. 17/2 Subduction along the Java Trench where the Indo-Australian Plate is moving under the Indonesian island chain..fueled the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. |