Part 2839

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To reduce; to diminish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Do not <i>deduct</i> it to days."

<i>Massinger.</i>

<h1>Deductible</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*duct"i*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn.</def>

<blockquote>Not one found honestly <b>deductible</b> From any use that pleased him. <i>Mrs. Browning.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Deducible; consequential.</def>

<h1>Deduction</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*duc"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>deductio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>d\'82duction</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Act or process of deducing or inferring.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>deduction</b> of one language from another. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called <b>deduction</b>. <i>J. R. Seely.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; <as>as, the <ex>deduction</ex> of the subtrahend from the minuend</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.</def>

<blockquote>Make fair <b>deductions</b>; see to what they mount. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; <as>as, a <ex>deduction</ex> from the yearly rent</as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Induction</er>.</syn>

<h1>Deductive</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*duct"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. L. <ets>deductivus</ets> derivative.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.</def>

<blockquote>All knowledge of causes is <b>deductive</b>. <i>Glanvill.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Notions and ideas . . . used in a <b>deductive</b> process. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Deductively</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*duct"ive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence.</def>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Deductor</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*duc"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., a guide. See <er>Deduce</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The pilot whale or blackfish.</def>

<h1>Deduit</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*duit"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'82duit</ets>. Cf. <er>Deduct</er>.]</ety> <def>Delight; pleasure.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>