▪ I. † deˈduct, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. dēduct-us, pa. pple. of dēdūcĕre: see next. After the formation of deduct vb., used as its pa. pple. till superseded by deducted.]
Deducted.
| 1439 Rolls of Parl. 5 Aftur the summes in the seid Commissions to be deducte. 1495 Act 11 Hen VII, c. 61 §1 Aftir all ordinary charges deducte. 1532 Frith Mirror or Glass (1829) 273 The poor, which..are the owners, under God, of all together, the minister's living deduct. |
▪ II. deduct, v.
(dɪˈdʌkt)
[f. L. dēduct-, ppl. stem of L. dēdūc-ĕre to lead or bring down or away, lead off, withdraw, f. de- I. 1, 2 + dūcĕre to lead, draw. Cf. deduce: the two verbs were formerly to a great extent synonymous, but are now differentiated in use, by the restriction of this to sense 1.]
1. trans. To take away or subtract from a sum or amount. (The current sense.)
Now said usually of amounts, portions, etc., while subtract is properly said only of numbers; but deduct was formerly used also of the arithmetical operation.
| 1524 Ch. Accts. Kingston-on-Thames in Lysons Environs of London I. 226 Rec{supd} at the Church Ale and Robyn-hode, all things deducted, 3l. 10s. 6d. 1530 Palsgr. 509/1, I deducte, I abate partyculer sommes out of a great somme, Je rabats. 1542 Recorde Gr. Artes (1575) 107 Deducte the digit from the figure that is ouer him, and write the remayner. 1631 Gouge God's Arrows v. §18. 430 His Master might buy him bow, and arrowes, and deduct the price out of his wages. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. ii. 182 Deducting the waight of that five pound. 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 108 ¶2 When we have deducted all that is absorbed in sleep. 1850 Prescott Peru II. 115 The royal fifth was first deducted, including the remittance already sent to Spain. 1874 Masson Milton (Gold. Treas. ed.) I. p. xi, If we deduct the two Psalm Paraphrases..Milton's literary life may be said to begin exactly with the reign of Charles I. |
| absol. 1824 Examiner 641/1 Every shilling squandered by Ministers..deducts from the value of their property. |
† 2. To lead forth, conduct (a colony); = deduce 1 a. Obs.
| 1549 Coverdale Erasm. Par. Phil. Argt., A people deducted oute of the citie of Philippos. 1582 [see deducting]. 1600 Holland Livy Pref. 3 Venice was a Colonie deducted and drawne from thence. 1627 [see deducted]. |
† 3. To draw or convey (a streamlet) aside (from the main stream). Obs. rare.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. 10 Which as a rillet is deducted from that maine channell of my other studies. c 1626 Dick of Devon. ii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 31 A rivolet but deducted From the mayne Channell. |
† 4. To derive; to trace the derivation or descent of; = deduce 3, 5. Obs.
| 1530 Palsgr. 17 All suche wordes as be deducted out of Latin wordes. 1565 T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 94* For more safety to deduct that succession from the See of Rome. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. II. 9/1 Touching the name Ibernia, historiographers are not yet agreed from whence it is deducted. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 108 In deducting the Maccabees from Iudah. 1648 Gage West Ind. xx. (1655) 174 From whence commonly in the Church of Rome the Texts and subjects of Sermons are deducted. 1660 R. Sheringham King's Suprem. Asserted ii. (1682) 10 All authority..is derived and deducted from the King's Majesty. |
† 5. To trace out in order: to bring down from or to a particular period; = deduce 4. Obs. rare.
| 1545 Leland New-year's Gift in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. cxviii. 330 The first boke, begynnyng at the Druides, is deducted vnto the tyme of the comyng of S. Augustyne. 1586 Mary Q. of Scots Let. to Babington 12 July in Howell St. Trials (1809) I. 1177 For divers great and importunate considerations which were here too long to be deducted. |
† 6. To derive by reasoning, infer, deduce. Obs.
| 1563 Foxe A. & M. 850 b, This parte he deducted and proued by sundry ensamples, and similitudes. 1609 E. Hoby Lett. to T. Higgins 37 Which by Logicall consequence is not Necessarily deducted out of the Premisses. 1660 tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. i. iii. 32 A conception..deducted from sober influence of reason. 1889 Cape Law Jrnl. 203 To take all the circumstances into consideration and to deduct therefrom..the act of desertion. |
† 7. To reduce. Obs. (Cf. deduce 8.)
| 1599–16.. Massinger, etc. Old Law iii. i. Clerk. 'Tis but so many months, so many weeks, so many—. Gnotho. Do not deduct it to days, 'twill be the more tedious. |
Hence deˈducted ppl. a., deˈducting vbl. n.
| 1582 Divers Voy. (Hakluyt Soc. 1850) 9 The deducting of some Colonies of our superfluous people into those temperate and fertile partes of America. 1596 Spenser Hymn Love 106 Man..hauing yet in his deducted spright, Some sparks remaining of that heauenly fyre. 1598 Yong Diana Ded., It befell to my lot..to performe the part of a French Oratour by a deducted speech in the same toong. 1627 May Lucan iv. 434 Though no deducted colony. |