reduce ment (red us ment)

[= Sp. reduci mien to = It. riducimento; as reduce + -ment.] 1. The act of reducing; a bringing back; restoration. This once select Nation of God... being ever since incapable of any Coalition or Reduce ment into one Body politic. Howell , Letters, ii. 8. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia reduce ment The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia By this we shall know whether yours be that ancient Prelaty which you say was first constituted for the reduce ment of quiet and unanimity into the Church. Milton , Church-Government, i. 6. 2. Reduction; abatement. After a little reduce ment of his pa ion, and that time and further meditation had disposed his senses to their perfect estate. 5025 tle piece or cut taken out of a part, member, etc., to make it more uniform, or for any other purpose; a quirk. Gwilt. History of Patient Grisel , p. 40. ( Hall i well .) reducent (rē-dū'sent), a . and n. [ redu cen (t-)s, ppr. of reducere : see reduce .] I. a . Tending to reduce. IMG:content-1802.png:[blocks in formation] The theorem of the reducibility of the general problem of transformation to the rational is, however, stated without proof in this paper. Encyc . Brit ., XIII. 70. It was, however, quite evident, from... the history and the complete reducibility of the tumour, that it must be a pulmonary hernia. Lancet , No. 3429, p. 1002. reducible (re-du'si-bl), a. [ In the new World they have a World of Drinks; for there is no Root, Flower, Fruit, or Pulse but is reducible to a notable Liquor. Howell , Letters, ii. 54. The line of its motion was neither straight nor yet reducible to any curve or mixed line that I had met with among mathematicians. Boyle, Works, III. 683. I have never been the le satisfied that no cause reduci ble to the known laws of nature occasioned my sufferings. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 198. Reducible circuit. See circuit . Reducible hernia, a hernia whose contents can be returned by pre ure or posture. reduciblene (rē-dū ́si-bl-nes), n. The quality of being reducible. The reduciblene of ice back again into water. Boyle , Works, III. 50. reducibly (rē-dū'si-bli), adv. In a reducible manner.