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adduction|əˈdʌkʃən|
[a. Fr. adduction (16th c. in Litt.), ad. med.L. addūctiōn-em, n. of action, f. addūcĕre: see adduce.]
The action of bringing to or towards.
†1. The action of bringing a thing to something else; spec. the alleged bringing of our Lord's body and blood into the elements, transubstantiation. Obs.
1638Featley Transubst. 182 Such an adduction importeth onely a translocation.
2. The action of adducting; in Phys. the opposite of abduction.
1656tr. Hobbes's Elem. Philos. (1839) 343 The bending of a line is either the adduction of diduction of the extreme parts. 1666J. Smith Solomon's Old Age (1676) 62 If we consider how they [the muscles] can stir the limb inward, outward..can perform adduction, abduction. 1709Blair Osteogr. Eleph. in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 129 The motion of the Humerus..is rather Flexion and Extension, than Adduction or Abduction. 1872Huxley Physiol. vii. 174 The different kinds of movements which the levers thus connected are capable of performing are called..abduction and adduction.
3. The action of adducing or bringing forward facts or statements.
1764Swinton in Phil. Trans. LIV. 399 The Chaldee term being of the singular number..the adduction of it seems altogether impertinent. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. ii. (1852) 44 The adduction of such parts of Scripture as furnish an obvious ground for the conclusion. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 280 These attributes are so characteristic..that..their adduction gives a measure of authority to the statement. |