† diducev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To pull or draw away or apart.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate by force or violence > pull apart
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diduct1682
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 25v By this ye arme is distaunt, and deduced from the ribbes.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 118 It is moved and diduced outward and foreward.
1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 8 (note) The extreams of any crooked line may..be further and further diduced, till the crooked line be stretched to a strait line.
2. To dilate, expand, enlarge.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > expand or enlarge [verb (transitive)]
broada1250
room?1316
enlargec1380
largea1382
magnifya1382
alargec1384
spreada1387
amplify1432
brede1440
expanse1477
ampliatea1513
dilate1528
propagate1548
widen1566
explicate1578
expatiate1603
diduce1605
engross?1611
dilatate1613
biggen1643
promote1652
intend1658
expand1665
to run out1683
amplificate1731
broaden1744
outstretcha1758
largen1869
big1884
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Fff3v The exposition is diduced into large comentaries. View more context for this quotation
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ss Its seed brayed and drunk in passum..diduces its passages.
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