Abduce

a. [Lat. abduco.] To draw to a different part; to withdraw one part from another. A word chiefly used in anatomy. "If we abduce the eye into either corner, the object will not duplicate." - Browne. Abdu'cent, a . ( Anat . ) Drawing away; pulling away; as, the abducent muscles, or apductors. Abduct', v. a. [Lat. abducere .] To take away by fraud or force; to withdraw illegally. Abduction, n. [Lat. abductio .] The act of abducing or abducting; a taking or drawing away, and specifically an unlawful taking ( Law .) The forcible and fraudulent taking away of women or girls. This criminal offence is of three kinds:1. If any person shall maliciously, either by force or fraud, lead, or take away, or detain, any child under the age of ten years, with intent to deprive the parents, or other persons having the lawful charge of such child, or with intent to steal any article on its person; or shall receive or harbor such child, knowing the same to have been so stolen or enticed - every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to penal servitude for not more than seven, or le than three years, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any term not more than two years.-2 If the girl is under the age of sixteen years, the offender shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to suffer such punishment, by fine or imprisonment, or both, as the court shall award.-3. If any person shall, from motives of lucre, take away or detain against her will, any woman having any interest, present or future, in any real or personal estate, with intent to marry or defile her, or to cause her to be married or defiled by any other person, every such offender, and every person counselling, aiding, or abetting such offender, shall be guilty of felony, and liable to penal servitude for life, or for any time not le than three years, or to be imprisoned with or without hard labor, for any term not exceeding five years. If the woman first consent to be taken away. and afterward refuse to continue with the offender, and he forcibly detain her; or if she be forcibly taken away, and she afterward consent to her marriage or defilement; or if she be taken away with her own consent, obtained by fraud or imposition, the offence is the same. But if a man without fraud, deceit, or violence, marries a woman under age, without the consent of her father or guardian, that act is not indictable at common law. (Logic.) Is a form of reasoning in which the greater extreme is contained in the medium; but the medium is not so evidently in the le er extreme. Ex. "Whatever God has revealed is certainly true; now God has revealed a future retribution; therefore a future retribution is certainly true." In the use of this kind of reasoning, the minor proposition must be proved to be contained in the major, or the reasoning is inconclusive. Abduct'or, n. [Lat, abducere , to draw away.] ( Anat .) A muscle, the office of which is to pull back or draw the member to which it is affixed from some other. The antagonist is called adductor. ( Law .) A person guilty of abduction. Abdul Aziz. A Sultan of Turkey, B. Feb., 1830, succeeded his brother Abdul Medjid, June 25, 1861. He endeavored to ameliorate the condition of the people, but his good int ntions were soon overborne. Dethroned by the council of ministers, May 30, 1876, and soon afterwards a a inated, he was succeeded by his brother Mourad V. Five years later, May, 1881, his murderers were sentenced to death. Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey, в. 1730, s. his brother Mustapha II., Jan. 21, 1774. He sustained two disastrous wars against Ru ia, and D. April 7, 1789. He was succeeded by his nephew Selim III. Abdul Hamid Khan, Sultan of Turkey, born Sept. 22, 1842, succeeded his brother Mourad V. Aug. 31, 1876. He unsucce fully resisted Ru ian invasion, and by the treaty of Berlin (q. v.) lost some of his best provinces. See TURKEY. Abdul Medjid, Sultan of Turkey, born April 23, 1822, died June 25, 1861; succeeded to the throne July 1, 1839, at the early age of 17, eight days after the battle of Nezib, in which the troops of the Sultan Mahmoud II were defeated by Ibrahim-Pacha son of Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt, the most powerful va al of the Turkish empire. The interference of the allied powers alone prevented the empire from dismemberment at this juncture. This danger pa ed, the young sultan applied himself to the development of his father's plans of reform, but from the beginning of his administration to its close, there was constantly some disturbing element to delay or thwart his meritorious purposes. The Servian question; the insurrection in Albania; the war in Koordistan; the Turco-Greek and Wall a chi an revolution of 1848-'9; his noble refusal to surrender the Hungarian and Polish refugees to Austria and Ru ia in 1850; the question of the holy places, which led to the Crime an war; the attempt to a a inate him in 1859; and the Syrian ma acres of 1860, were all so many obstacles to his progre . To these might also be added his natural indolence, love of sensual indulgence, and infirm health. The great event of his reign was the Crime an war, in which France and England allied themselves with Turkey against the encroachments of Ru ia, and which was terminated by the fall of Sebastopol after a long siege, in 1856. He was succeeded by hia brother, Abdul Aziz Khan. Abd'ur Rahman. See Abd -er-Rahman. Abeam', adv. ( Naut.) On the beam, i. e., at right angles to the ship's keel.