substraction

He assumes that what is not explicitly and consensually clear across what all acknowledge to be normative sources would be an innovation if asserted, and thus would constitute addition to or substraction from the deposit of faith.

Progressing to ecclesiological debate Mike L 2007

He assumes that what is not explicitly and consensually clear across what all acknowledge to be normative sources would be an innovation if asserted, and thus would constitute addition to or substraction from the deposit of faith.

Archive 2007-02-01 Mike L 2007

To put it clearly: a field is a structure with addition, substraction, multiplication and division that work the way you are familiar with.

Phrack Issue #63 (The Lost Circle of Hackers) 2005

I think he was well suited for the job at hand which is to restructure the Pentagon by substraction after all these years of addition.

Mud Soldiers: Life Inside the New American Army 1989

They have not been taught systematic approaches more abstract than those of addition and substraction and as a consequence have not become very sophisticated thinkers.

Chapter 3 1975

Addition and substraction in balances and summaries

Chapter 4 1975

This may be answered by a process of substraction:

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

But Rowland seemed to open a new rule, farther on in Butler than addition and substraction.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

And being conscious likewise, how Presbytery or the Calvinisticall Reformation, which many here, and more in Scotland, affected, by substraction and novel interpretation, had forsaken the good old ways of the primitive Church, and was become dangerous to

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

"Well, I never did like addition, it's substraction I'm so smart in."

Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry