What is "subtractive"

Usage examples of "subtractive".

It had been thought that accomplishing such conjuring with people was not only a lost art but impossible because, among other things, such nefarious work required the use of not only Additive but Subtractive Magic.

It was said that he had traded the pure souls of children to the Keeper of the underworld in exchange for dark indulgences, including the ability to use Subtractive Magic.

Keeper that the first Sisters of the Dark had contrived to obtain the knowledge of how to use Subtractive Magic, thereafter passing it on in secret to their covert disciples.

I got rid of your blood with the use of Subtractive Magic I may have inadvertently given it a taste of your blood, so to speak.

She knew, too, that there were shields placed in ancient times that could only be passed with the aid of Subtractive Magic.

His own Han acted as the conduit, and she held within herself that power as the Subtractive essence slipped through the veil.

Additive and Subtractive Magic in order to use the gateway or to claim the power of Orden for himself.

Richard is the first in thousands of years to be born with the Subtractive side as well as the Additive.

When Nicci used Subtractive Magic to eliminate your spent blood, the beast, from its roots in the underworld, got its taste of you, or, more accurately, a measure of your magic.

Eliminating something with Subtractive Magic was as irreversible as death.

Richard slowly turned each over, idly looking for anything that made sense to him as Zedd droned on about overlapping transpositional forks and triple duplexes bound to conjugated roots compromised by precession and sequential, proportional, binary inversions shrouding flawed bifurcations that the formulas revealed which could only be detected through Subtractive levorotatory.

It was made in part with Subtractive Magic and they had no weapon against that.

She had been taught the sinister art of how to use Subtractive Magic in exchange for dark oaths that Richard feared to think about.

You can command Subtractive Magic, so you can make it through as well.

But because the enemy would have had Subtractive powers as well, I think the shields must also somehow read the nature of who is trying to pass through them, perhaps thereby interpreting the potential level of threat.