1. Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn.
Not one found honestly deductible
From any use that pleased him.
Mrs. Browning. 2. Deducible; consequential.
Deduction
(De*duc"tion) n. [L. deductio: cf. F. déduction.]
1. Act or process of deducing or inferring.
The deduction of one language from another.
Johnson.
This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction.
J. R. Seely. 2. Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
3. That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
Make fair deductions; see to what they mount.
Pope. 4. That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.
Syn. — See Induction.
Deductive
(De*duct"ive) a. [Cf. L. deductivus derivative.] Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of
being deduced from premises; deducible.
All knowledge of causes is deductive.
Glanvill.
Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process.
Whewell. Deductively
(De*duct"ive*ly), adv. By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.
Deductor
(||De*duc"tor) n. [L., a guide. See Deduce.] (Zoöl.) The pilot whale or blackfish.
Deduit
(De*duit") n. [F. déduit. Cf. Deduct.] Delight; pleasure. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Deduplication
(De*du`pli*ca"tion) n. [Pref. de- + duplication.] (Biol.) The division of that which is
morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.
Deed
(Deed) a. Dead. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Deed
(Deed), n. [AS. dd; akin to OS. dad, D. & Dan. daad, G. thai, Sw. dåd, Goth. dds; fr. the root
of do. See Do, v. t.]
1. That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; — a word of
extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.
And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?
Gen. xliv. 15.
We receive the due reward of our deeds.
Luke xxiii. 41.
Would serve his kind in deed and word.
Tennyson. 2. Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. "Knightly deeds." Spenser.
Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn.
Dryden.
