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reˈductively, adv. Now rare.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
By reduction; by consequence or inference, indirectly. (Common in 17th c.)
1631J. Burges Answ. Rejoined Pref. 37 Ceremonies called Sacred are of two sorts, Properly so called, or Reductively. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 129 Insinuating, that all the laws that regulate man's duty are virtually or reductively comprised there. 1702Eng. Theophrastus 298 Tho' they are not matter of conscience, simply and apart, they are so reductively, with a regard to other considerations. 1817J. Brown Gospel Truth Stated (1831) 141 There is not a conditional promise in the Bible but what is reductively absolute. 1853Whewell Grotius I. 11 Some things are said to be according to Natural Law, which are not so properly, but, as the schools love to speak, reductively. |