Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to reduce.
- noun That which reduces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to reduce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
reduce . - noun A reducing
agent .
Etymologies
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Latin reducens, present participle of reducere.
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Examples
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_ "Non avium citharoeque cantus somnum reducent_?"
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Is it quite true that, "non avium citharaeque cantus somnum reducent"?
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Is it quite true that, "non avium citharaeque cantus somnum reducent"?
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non auium citharaeque cantus20 somnum reducent: somnus agrestium lenis uirorum non humilis domos
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"I don't doubt it," said my father, ruefully; "only those doves, when they are small, are a very noisy sort of birds -- non talium avium cantos somnum reducent.
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"I don't doubt it," said my father, ruefully; "only those doves, when they are small, are a very noisy sort of birds -- non talium avium cantos somnum reducent.
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