Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Deduction; specifically, in music, the regular succession of notes in the hexachords of the musical system introduced by Guido d'Arezzo, about
a. d. 1024.
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Examples
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Long before the birth of Jesus Christ, Roman custom drew a clear distinction between the sponsalia, or preliminaries, and the marriage itself, which latter culminated in the conducting of the bride to her husband's house (in domum deductio).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The deductions drawn -- _deductio ad absurdibus_ -- reveal no talent, none of the prophetic _feu de joie_ at all.
The Prophet of Berkeley Square Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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London Conference of 1910 it got its _deductio in forum_ or at least its first dance.
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Basilica is in Latin a cash withdrawal being "deductio ex pecunia".
The Guardian World News John Hooper 2010
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However, many of the entities who invested with him were tax exempt already so they will not get any benefit from a deductio.
PrairiePundit 2009
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_deductio_, charmingly described in the beautiful sixty-fifth poem of
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Homes person who is out for removing the roofs of our criminal classics by what deductio ad domunum he hopes de tacto to detect anything unless he happens of himself, movibile tectu, to have a slade off) after which they can be reduced to a fragment of their true crust by even the youngest of Margees if she will take plase to be seated and smile if I please.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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“My dear Holmes, this verges on deductio ad absurdum.
A Letter of Mary King, Laurie R. 1996
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“My dear Holmes, this verges on deductio ad absurdum.
A Letter of Mary King, Laurie R. 1996
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