▪ I. † diˈduce, v. Obs.
[ad. L. dīdūcĕre to pull asunder or apart, pull in two, f. di-1, dis- + dūcĕre to lead, draw. Used in 16–17th c., and sometimes confused in form with deduce.]
1. trans. To pull or draw away or apart.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 26 By this y⊇ arme is distaunt, and deduced from the ribbes. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. 118 It is moved and diduced outward and foreward. a 1696 Scarburgh Euclid (1705) 8 The extreams of any crooked line may..be further and further diduced, till the crooked line be stretched to a strait line. |
2. To dilate, expand, enlarge.
| 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxv. §11. 124 The exposition is diduced into large comentaries. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 307 Its seed brayed and drunk in passum..diduces its passages. |
▪ II. diduce, -ment
obs. (erron.) ff. deduce, -ment.