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Deduct v. t. (past & past part. deducted; pres. part. deducting)

To lead forth or out. (Obs.) "A people deducted out of the city of Philippos."

To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; often with from or out of. "Deduct what is but vanity, or dress." "Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops." "We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in... infancy."

To reduce; to diminish. (Obs.) "Do not deduct it to days."

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"Deduct" Quotes from Famous Books

... sent an agent to purchase the asylum and continue it in its present form. He stated the American Missionary Association could not take it with the proviso, but would pay me two hundred and fifty dollars of the five hundred dollars I had agreed to deduct out of the two thousand dollars purchase money, if I should relinquish the proviso. I feared the result, thinking the enterprise might be only an experiment, and might close at some future period, leaving these children ...

— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland

... Petercumb Hall," announced the butler. Enter Mrs Peters first, a very diminutive lady, and followed by Mr Peters, six feet four inches without his shoes, deduct for stooping and curved shoulders seven inches. Mr Peters had retired from the Stock Exchange with a competence, bought a place, named it Petercumb Hall, and set up his carriage. Another knock, and Mr and Mrs Drummond were announced. Compliments ...

— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat

... not make repairs at the expense of the landlord, or deduct the cost of them out of the rent, unless by special agreement. But if the premises, from want of repair, have become unsafe or useless, the tenant from year to year may quit without notice; and he would not be liable for rent after the use had ...

— The Government Class Book • Andrew W. Young

... it occasioned. On opening the budget of 1788, the minister observed in the House of Commons, 'that the bargain he had this year for the lottery was so very good for the public, that it would produce a gain of L270,000, from which he would deduct L12,000 for the expenses of drawing, &c., and then there would remain a net produce of L258,000.' This result, therefore, was deemed extraordinary; but what was that to the extraordinary mischief done to the community by the ...

— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz

... hundred remaining make an hundred and fifty half-reals, and three-score and fifteen reals; put that with the seven hundred and fifty, and it comes altogether to eight hundred and twenty-five reals. This I will deduct from what I hold of yours, and will return home rich and well pleased, though well whipped. But one must not think to catch trout—I say no more."—"O blessed Sancho! O amiable Sancho!" cried Don Quixote. "How shall Dulcinea and I be bound to serve thee all the days that Heaven shall ...

— The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites • Eva March Tappan

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