subduct

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The small importer, who requires all the money he can raise for investments abroad, and who can but ill afford to pay the lowest duty, would have to subduct in advance a portion of his funds in order to pay the duties, and would lose the interest upon the amount thus paid for all the time the goods might remain unsold, which might absorb his profits.

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  1. Same as subduce, 1. He … established himself upon the rug, … subducting his coat-tails one under each arm. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 32.

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  • The two plates bump up to each other, causing the Juan de Fuca Plate to dive, or subduct, beneath the North American Plate. —  News Review - Top Stories
  • Or did it come down as the plates slowly subduct, suggesting that the planet may have been much wetter a long time ago? —  Softpedia News - Global
  • In order to cover the expenses incident to the plan, it will be authorized to receive moderate premiums for certificates issued on deposits and on bills bought and sold, and thus, as far as its dealings extend, to furnish facilities to commercial intercourse at the lowest possible rates and to subduct from the earnings of industry the least possible sum. —  State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
  • The small importer, who requires all the money he can raise for investments abroad, and who can but ill afford to pay the lowest duty, would have to subduct in advance a portion of his funds in order to pay the duties, and would lose the interest upon the amount thus paid for all the time the goods might remain unsold, which might absorb his profits. —  State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
  • If, therefore, he who imagines the world to be filled with his actions and praises, shall subduct from the number of his encomiasts all those who are placed below the flight of fame, and who hear in the valley of life no voice but that of necessity; all those who imagine themselves too important to regard him, and consider the mention of his name as a usurpation of their time; all who are too much or too little pleased with themselves to attend to anything external; all who are attracted by pleasure, or chained down by pain to unvaried ideas; all who are withheld from attending his triumph by different pursuits; and all who slumber in universal negligence; he will find his renown straitened by nearer bounds than the rocks of Caucasus; and perceive that no man can be venerable or formidable, but to a small part of his fellow-creatures. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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  1. from Latin subductus, past participle of subducere, draw from under, take away: see subduce.
 

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