reducementn.

Brit.

/rᵻˈdjuːsm(ə)nt/,

/rᵻˈdʒuːsm(ə)nt/, U.S.

/rəˈd(j)usm(ə)nt/,

/riˈd(j)usm(ə)nt/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: reduce v., -ment suffix.

Etymology: < reduce v. + -ment suffix. Compare Spanish reducimiento (mid 16th cent.), Italian riducimento (a1406 as reducimento).

†a. Restoration of a former quality, attribute, state of affairs, etc. Also: the act of bringing a quality, etc., into something. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > bringing into use

infetching1535

reducement1592

induction1604

introduction1651

phasing in1955

1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvi. 156 Erickmon..of her loue and witts did wish reducement all in vayne.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 27 That ancient Prelaty which you say was first constituted for the reducement of quiet & unanimity into the Church.

b. The action of bringing a person or thing back to a previous state or position, esp. to orthodoxy in belief or conduct. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun]

restoringa1382

reparellingc1410

reduction1447

rehaving1472

redintegration1501

restoration1510

reintegration1570

resource1596

reducement1604

reinstauration1610

retrievala1643

revindication1643

retrievement1657

retrieve1658

recoveringa1660

reviction1679

retrieving1718

revulsionc1760

rehabilitation1830

the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > causing > bringing into certain state or form

reducement1604

reduction1605

1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. II. ix. 471 What labour and charity was vsed towards them, for their instruction and reducement.

1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver (running title) Englands improvement: or, Reducement of land to pristine fertility.

1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous ii. 25 He manages in order to the reducement of lost Sinners.

c1682 J. Hull Observable Passages of Providence in Archaeologia Americana (1857) 3 170 The Rev. Mr. Cotton, and the church of Boston, ceased not for some years to send letters..to endeavor their reducement.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 236 That he..plotted the reducement of the R. Religion to its antient vigour.

1769 T. Nugent tr. P. J. Grosley New Observ. Italy II. 102 A reducement of most of the new orders to their primitive state would prove the total dissolution of them.

1896 Q. Rev. Jan. 22 All-night sittings of the Commons, election cries of ‘Reformation and Reducement’.

1987 T. Harris London Crowds Reign Charles II (1990) iv. 95 The demands of the rioters of 1668 for ‘liberty of conscience’ or ‘reformation and reducement’.

a. Originally: †the action of bringing a country, region, etc., to order or obedience (obsolete). Later without construction: conquest, subjugation; = reduction n. 5. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > conquering or defeating

vanquishinga1325

conquestc1325

wainc1330

conqueringa1340

overcoming1340

conquest1384

expugnation1429

reduction1429

profligationc1475

debellation1526

defeating1536

conquessingc1550

conquesting1555

vanquishment1593

conquerment1597

eviction1602

reducement1609

debellatinga1626

debelling1651

triumphingc1850

lathering1865

1609 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. I. 142 They maie..become instruments in reducement of that part of the kingdome to civillety and obedience.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 270 For a future absolute reducement of this Countrey.

1645 Let. 26 Sept. in Ld. George Digby's Cabinet (1646) 55 His Majesty conceives that the reducement of Scotland to his obedience will have two notable effects.

1692 T. Wagstaffe Vindic. King Charles i. 22 They had no sooner gotten an Army and Money together..for the reducement of Ireland [etc.].

1702 D. Jones Hist. France II. iii. 819 The fair Weather ended the very Day of the Reducement of Rochel.

1853 Trans. Kilkenny Archæological Soc. 1 408 Their arms had been so far successful that the total reducement of Ireland might..be speedily effected.

1881 H. C. Lodge Short Hist. Eng. Colonies in Amer. iii. 103 Such had been the prudence of the Assembly and of Lord Baltimore, that Maryland was not expressly named in the Parliamentary commission for the ‘reducement’ of the colonies.

1911 B. C. Steiner Maryland under Commonw. v. 58 After the ‘reducement’ of Maryland, both Stone and Hatton became private citizens.

†b. The action of making something subject to an authority or power. Cf. reduce v. 25b. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > bringing under control

subducion1455

suppeditation1536

managing1579

reducement1649

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης ix. 80 A universal distemper, and reducement of law to arbitrary power.

3. Diminution, lessening; abatement; = reduction n. 14.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]

waningc900

littlingOE

lessingc1350

abating1370

diminutionc1374

minishinga1382

decrease1383

remissiona1398

shrinkinga1398

decreasing1398

adminishing?c1400

abbreviation?a1425

lessening?a1425

minoration?a1425

disincrease1430

abatement1433

restrictiona1450

batea1475

diminuation1477

limitation1483

abate1486

minute1495

minishment1533

mitigation1533

diminishinga1535

extenuation1542

slacking1542

reduce1549

diminishment1551

perditionc1555

debatementa1563

rebatement1573

obstriction1578

imminution1583

contracting1585

contraction1589

rabate1589

rebating1598

retrenchmentc1600

decession1606

ravalling1609

reducement1619

decrement1621

bating1629

shrivellinga1631

decretion1635

dejection1652

abater1653

rolling back1658

limiting1677

batement1679

reduction1695

depression1793

downdraw1813

descent1832

decess1854

lowering1868

shrinkage1873

dégringolade1883

minification1894

degrowth1920

downrating1950

1619 Hist. Patient Grisel (Percy Soc.) 40 After a little reducement of his passion.

1646 T. Fairfax in H. Cary Memorials Great Civil War (1842) I. 77 The committee of Northampton have applied to me for the reducement of the forces of that garrison.

1670 T. Culpeper Necessity abating Usury 22 Usury had its first reducement from ten to eight per Cent.

1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde II. 367 The King had deferred the reducement of the establishment of that kingdom.

1753 S. Fielding David Simple: Vol. the Last vii. iv. 187 He then bought that little Farm in which he lately lived, and which he settled on his Wife for the good Jointure you was mentioning. Poor Woman! a sad Reducement from what she had reason to expect!

1808 Aberdeen Jrnl. 16 Mar. 1/5 (advt.) Owing to the reducement of the quality of Cotton Goods,..W. S. has been induced of late to give orders to some of the first mercantile houses, to serve him with Goods of a much superior quality.

1877 Era 28 Oct. 13/4 His claims suffered the slight reducement from 8,000 dollars to 299 dollars.

1914 Manitoba Free Press 19 Oct. 8/3 New 75c weaves just unpacked, which we mark at 50c as a special Tuesday reducement.

1994 Wellsboro (Pa.) Gaz. 12 Jan. 4/2 Any reducement in personnel in my department will only result in a reducement of services.

†4. An act of assigning something to a particular kind or class; (also) a deduction, an inference. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > process of inferring, inference > [noun]

reasoning?c1400

collection1529

conclusion1532

induction1551

inferring1571

remotion1587

syllogism1588

deduction1593

inference1593

inferment1593

extraction1622

eduction1654

perduction1656

reducementa1750

deducing1826

vertical thinking1966

1624 R. B. in F. White Repl. Fisher App. 71 The Errors were Fundamentall, reductiue, by a Reducement, if they which embraced them, did pertinaciously adhere to them, hauing sufficient meanes to be better enformed.

a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) II. 228 You are a species in a single pen, and are not to be judg'd by any of the bold reducements of a criticism, drawn from other writers' practice.

†5. Decline, reduction in fortune. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition

rureOE

ebbingc1200

fallc1225

declinea1327

downfallingc1330

downfalla1400

fall of mana1400

wanea1400

ruinc1405

wrack1426

inclinationc1450

declination1533

labefactation1535

ebb1555

falling off1577

declining1581

inclining1590

declension1604

downset1608

neck-breaka1658

overseta1658

lapsing1665

reducement1667

lapse1680

labefaction1792

downshift1839

subsidence1839

downgrade1857

downturn1858

downslide1889

downswing1922

turn-down1957

tail-off1975

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 35 The Translations of Empires, the advance and reducement of families,..all these are circumacted by God.

†6. With into. The expression or manifestation of something in a particular form. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

a1670 G. Rust Disc. Truth 30 in J. Glanvill & G. Rust Two Disc. (1677) What Creatures doe, is but the offering of a particular case, for the reducement of a general principle into a particular action.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	reducement
释义	reducementn. Brit. /rᵻˈdjuːsm(ə)nt/, /rᵻˈdʒuːsm(ə)nt/, U.S. /rəˈd(j)usm(ə)nt/, /riˈd(j)usm(ə)nt/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: reduce v., -ment suffix. Etymology: < reduce v. + -ment suffix. Compare Spanish reducimiento (mid 16th cent.), Italian riducimento (a1406 as reducimento). 1. †a. Restoration of a former quality, attribute, state of affairs, etc. Also: the act of bringing a quality, etc., into something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > bringing into use infetching1535 reducement1592 induction1604 introduction1651 phasing in1955 1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvi. 156 Erickmon..of her loue and witts did wish reducement all in vayne. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 27 That ancient Prelaty which you say was first constituted for the reducement of quiet & unanimity into the Church. b. The action of bringing a person or thing back to a previous state or position, esp. to orthodoxy in belief or conduct. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] restoringa1382 reparellingc1410 reduction1447 rehaving1472 redintegration1501 restoration1510 reintegration1570 resource1596 reducement1604 reinstauration1610 retrievala1643 revindication1643 retrievement1657 retrieve1658 recoveringa1660 reviction1679 retrieving1718 revulsionc1760 rehabilitation1830 the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > causing > bringing into certain state or form reducement1604 reduction1605 1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. II. ix. 471 What labour and charity was vsed towards them, for their instruction and reducement. 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver (running title) Englands improvement: or, Reducement of land to pristine fertility. 1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous ii. 25 He manages in order to the reducement of lost Sinners. c1682 J. Hull Observable Passages of Providence in Archaeologia Americana (1857) 3 170 The Rev. Mr. Cotton, and the church of Boston, ceased not for some years to send letters..to endeavor their reducement. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 236 That he..plotted the reducement of the R. Religion to its antient vigour. 1769 T. Nugent tr. P. J. Grosley New Observ. Italy II. 102 A reducement of most of the new orders to their primitive state would prove the total dissolution of them. 1896 Q. Rev. Jan. 22 All-night sittings of the Commons, election cries of ‘Reformation and Reducement’. 1987 T. Harris London Crowds Reign Charles II (1990) iv. 95 The demands of the rioters of 1668 for ‘liberty of conscience’ or ‘reformation and reducement’. 2. a. Originally: †the action of bringing a country, region, etc., to order or obedience (obsolete). Later without construction: conquest, subjugation; = reduction n. 5. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > conquering or defeating vanquishinga1325 conquestc1325 wainc1330 conqueringa1340 overcoming1340 conquest1384 expugnation1429 reduction1429 profligationc1475 debellation1526 defeating1536 conquessingc1550 conquesting1555 vanquishment1593 conquerment1597 eviction1602 reducement1609 debellatinga1626 debelling1651 triumphingc1850 lathering1865 1609 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1887) 2nd Ser. I. 142 They maie..become instruments in reducement of that part of the kingdome to civillety and obedience. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 270 For a future absolute reducement of this Countrey. 1645 Let. 26 Sept. in Ld. George Digby's Cabinet (1646) 55 His Majesty conceives that the reducement of Scotland to his obedience will have two notable effects. 1692 T. Wagstaffe Vindic. King Charles i. 22 They had no sooner gotten an Army and Money together..for the reducement of Ireland [etc.]. 1702 D. Jones Hist. France II. iii. 819 The fair Weather ended the very Day of the Reducement of Rochel. 1853 Trans. Kilkenny Archæological Soc. 1 408 Their arms had been so far successful that the total reducement of Ireland might..be speedily effected. 1881 H. C. Lodge Short Hist. Eng. Colonies in Amer. iii. 103 Such had been the prudence of the Assembly and of Lord Baltimore, that Maryland was not expressly named in the Parliamentary commission for the ‘reducement’ of the colonies. 1911 B. C. Steiner Maryland under Commonw. v. 58 After the ‘reducement’ of Maryland, both Stone and Hatton became private citizens. †b. The action of making something subject to an authority or power. Cf. reduce v. 25b. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > bringing under control subducion1455 suppeditation1536 managing1579 reducement1649 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης ix. 80 A universal distemper, and reducement of law to arbitrary power. 3. Diminution, lessening; abatement; = reduction n. 14. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] waningc900 littlingOE lessingc1350 abating1370 diminutionc1374 minishinga1382 decrease1383 remissiona1398 shrinkinga1398 decreasing1398 adminishing?c1400 abbreviation?a1425 lessening?a1425 minoration?a1425 disincrease1430 abatement1433 restrictiona1450 batea1475 diminuation1477 limitation1483 abate1486 minute1495 minishment1533 mitigation1533 diminishinga1535 extenuation1542 slacking1542 reduce1549 diminishment1551 perditionc1555 debatementa1563 rebatement1573 obstriction1578 imminution1583 contracting1585 contraction1589 rabate1589 rebating1598 retrenchmentc1600 decession1606 ravalling1609 reducement1619 decrement1621 bating1629 shrivellinga1631 decretion1635 dejection1652 abater1653 rolling back1658 limiting1677 batement1679 reduction1695 depression1793 downdraw1813 descent1832 decess1854 lowering1868 shrinkage1873 dégringolade1883 minification1894 degrowth1920 downrating1950 1619 Hist. Patient Grisel (Percy Soc.) 40 After a little reducement of his passion. 1646 T. Fairfax in H. Cary Memorials Great Civil War (1842) I. 77 The committee of Northampton have applied to me for the reducement of the forces of that garrison. 1670 T. Culpeper Necessity abating Usury 22 Usury had its first reducement from ten to eight per Cent. 1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde II. 367 The King had deferred the reducement of the establishment of that kingdom. 1753 S. Fielding David Simple: Vol. the Last vii. iv. 187 He then bought that little Farm in which he lately lived, and which he settled on his Wife for the good Jointure you was mentioning. Poor Woman! a sad Reducement from what she had reason to expect! 1808 Aberdeen Jrnl. 16 Mar. 1/5 (advt.) Owing to the reducement of the quality of Cotton Goods,..W. S. has been induced of late to give orders to some of the first mercantile houses, to serve him with Goods of a much superior quality. 1877 Era 28 Oct. 13/4 His claims suffered the slight reducement from 8,000 dollars to 299 dollars. 1914 Manitoba Free Press 19 Oct. 8/3 New 75c weaves just unpacked, which we mark at 50c as a special Tuesday reducement. 1994 Wellsboro (Pa.) Gaz. 12 Jan. 4/2 Any reducement in personnel in my department will only result in a reducement of services. †4. An act of assigning something to a particular kind or class; (also) a deduction, an inference. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > process of inferring, inference > [noun] reasoning?c1400 collection1529 conclusion1532 induction1551 inferring1571 remotion1587 syllogism1588 deduction1593 inference1593 inferment1593 extraction1622 eduction1654 perduction1656 reducementa1750 deducing1826 vertical thinking1966 1624 R. B. in F. White Repl. Fisher App. 71 The Errors were Fundamentall, reductiue, by a Reducement, if they which embraced them, did pertinaciously adhere to them, hauing sufficient meanes to be better enformed. a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) II. 228 You are a species in a single pen, and are not to be judg'd by any of the bold reducements of a criticism, drawn from other writers' practice. †5. Decline, reduction in fortune. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition rureOE ebbingc1200 fallc1225 declinea1327 downfallingc1330 downfalla1400 fall of mana1400 wanea1400 ruinc1405 wrack1426 inclinationc1450 declination1533 labefactation1535 ebb1555 falling off1577 declining1581 inclining1590 declension1604 downset1608 neck-breaka1658 overseta1658 lapsing1665 reducement1667 lapse1680 labefaction1792 downshift1839 subsidence1839 downgrade1857 downturn1858 downslide1889 downswing1922 turn-down1957 tail-off1975 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 35 The Translations of Empires, the advance and reducement of families,..all these are circumacted by God. †6. With into. The expression or manifestation of something in a particular form. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1670 G. Rust Disc. Truth 30 in J. Glanvill & G. Rust Two Disc. (1677) What Creatures doe, is but the offering of a particular case, for the reducement of a general principle into a particular action. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592
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