The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deduct \De*duct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deducted; p. pr. & vb. n. Deducting.] [L. deductus, p. p. of deducere to deduct. See Deduce.]
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To lead forth or out. [Obs.]
A people deducted out of the city of Philippos.
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To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of.
Deduct what is but vanity, or dress.
--Pope.Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops.
--Bp. Burnet.We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy.
--Norris. To reduce; to diminish. [Obs.] ``Do not deduct it to days.''
--Massinger.
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vb. (present participle of deduct English)
Usage examples of "deducting".
Or are we perhaps to suppose that there was the still more astute design of concealing the deliberate and uniform addition of 100 years to the first period and their deduction from the subsequent period-did he design to conceal this by doing something similar, that is to say, adding and deducting, not indeed a century, but some years, even in a case in which there was no need for his doing so?
The takings, deducting expenses, were to go to the winner, and it was already evident that a larger stake than a hundred pounds was in question.
Lomax is under greater difficulties with less means, so that apprehend you have little more to expect from this country except the balance which will remain for Colle after deducting the little matter due to me, & what will be recovered by Anthony.
Then the polls of the other three candidates can, of course, be found by deducting the successive majorities from the last-mentioned number.
He did some fancywork, some juggling, deducting phony losses so that it turned out he didn't owe anything to Uncle Sam at all this year.
X has been in this business more than twenty years now, and the share that finds its way tortuously to him must be considerable, after deducting his pay ments to appointed and elected persons and their staffs.
The proceeds of the exhibition and sale amounted to £47 odd, which the worthy proprietor of the lighter, after deducting for a suit of clothes, laid up for my use.