Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to reduce.
- noun That which reduces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to reduce.
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- adjective Tending to
reduce . - noun A reducing
agent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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_ "Non avium citharoeque cantus somnum reducent_?"
Horace Theodore Martin 1862
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Is it quite true that, "non avium citharaeque cantus somnum reducent"?
What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Is it quite true that, "non avium citharaeque cantus somnum reducent"?
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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non auium citharaeque cantus20 somnum reducent: somnus agrestium lenis uirorum non humilis domos
High and Low, Rich and Poor Horace 1912
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"I don't doubt it," said my father, ruefully; "only those doves, when they are small, are a very noisy sort of birds -- non talium avium cantos somnum reducent.
The Caxtons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"I don't doubt it," said my father, ruefully; "only those doves, when they are small, are a very noisy sort of birds -- non talium avium cantos somnum reducent.
The Caxtons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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