Sub-dū'ce' or Sub-dūct', v. t.
v. t. [Lat. subducere, subductum, from sub, under, and ducere, to lead, to draw.]
Sense 1. To withdraw; to take away.
Or from my side subducting, took, perhaps, More than enough. Milton.
Sense 2. To subtract by arithmetical operation.
If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduct ten. Hale.