† diductionn.
Obsolete.
1. Drawing or pulling apart, separation.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > forcible separation > pulling apart
diductiona1640
pull-apart1951
a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) 3355 By whose diduction or rent, a place was opened for this future edifice to be erected in him.
1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. ii. 107 This Diduction of the Lips.
1661 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) iii. iv. 70 The strings..must draw as forcibly as those within the bladder so as to hinder the diduction of the sides.
2. Dilatation, expansion.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun]
waxingc1055
increasec1374
dilatationc1400
larging?a1425
magnification?a1425
bredingc1440
ampliation1509
enlarginga1513
dilating1532
ampliating1541
amplification1546
amplifying1553
propagation1563
enlargement1564
widening1569
growth1587
dilation1598
expatiation1612
diduction1634
expansion1635
extendinga1649
dispansion1658
elargement1680
expatiating1708
explicating1730
aggrandizement1772
extension1839
expanse1860
aggrandization1929
1634 T. Jackson Knowledg of Christ Jesus vii. xxv By a gentle diduction or dilatation, of that sense which was included in the Apostles' Creed.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 214 The 1260 days being but the Diduction of those larger measures of three times and a half or of forty two months in more numerous parts.
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