reduce ment

[Eng. reduce; -ment.] 1. The act of reducing or restoring; reduction, restoration. "The once select nation of God is now become incapable of any coalition or reduce ment into one body politick."- Howell : Letters , bk. ii., let. 3. 2. The act of reducing, le ening, or diminishing. "After a little reduce ment of his pa ion." -Hist. of Patient Grisel, p. 40.