Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce; subdue; subject.
- Reduced; subdued.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To reduce; to subdue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
reduce ; tosubdue .
Etymologies
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Examples
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'Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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’Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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’Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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