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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deduct \De*duct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deducted}; p. pr & vb
n. {Deducting}.] [L. deductus p. p. of deducere to deduct.
See {Deduce}.]
1. To lead forth or out [Obs.]
A people deducted out of the city of Philippos
--Udall.
2. 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.
3. To reduce; to diminish. [Obs.] ``Do not deduct it to
days.'' --Massinger.
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