† diˈduction Obs.
[ad. L. dīductiōn-em, n. of action f. dīdūcĕre: see diduce and -tion.]
1. Drawing or pulling apart, separation.
| a 1640 Jackson Creed xi. v, By whose diduction or rent a place was opened for this future edifice to be erected in Him. 1649 Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. ii. 107 This Diduction of the Lips. 1661 Boyle Spring of Air iii. iv. (1682) 70 The strings..must draw as forcibly as those within the bladder so as to hinder the diduction of the sides. |
2. Dilatation, expansion.
| 1634 Jackson Creed vii. xxv, By a gentle diduction or dilatation, of that sense which was included in the Apostles' Creed. 1664 H. More Myst. Iniq. 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. |