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1537 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 557 From the whych opinion I colde not abduce them with all my endevor.

1632 T. E. Lawes Womens Rights i. 9 Whosoever lay person shall bee convicted..to have detained, abduced or married puerum aliquem, he shall yeeld the value of the marriage and be imprisoned.

1828 R. Montgomery Age Reviewed (ed. 2) i. 64 They..abduce some of our countrywomen; and then abuse us for our want of ‘politesse, and cold manners!!’

1863 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 3 284 Sir Henry Hayes, a gallant Corcagian knight, abduced a Quaker damsel.

1920 S. Leacock Winsome Winnie v. 29 ‘Just Heaven!’ cried the Unhappy Girl. ‘Is it possible that they mean to abduce me?’

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xx. 156 If we abduce the eye into either corner, the object will not duplicate. View more context for this quotation

1681 J. Browne Compl. Treat. Muscles 121 This Muscle doth abduce the Little Finger from the rest of the Fingers.

1714 Bibliotheca Anatomica III. 137/1 Others mostly Nervous or Membranous, as the Fascialata abducing the Tibia.

1831 W. S. Cox Synopsis Bones 153 To assist in abducing the thigh.

1862 Amer. Med. Times 17 May 281/2 The injured limb must be abduced from the trunk at an acute angle and surrounded with a cut-open sleeve.

1912 M. Thorek tr. F. Krause Surg. Brain & Spinal Cord III. 1019 On the 27th of June the patient was also able to abduce the right arm to almost a horizontal position.

2004 Jrnl. Manipulative & Physiol. Therapeutics 27 181/2 The shoulder was then abduced by the examiner to the first onset of pain.

1720 T. Salmon Tryals for High-treason IV. 283 The Depositions of Witnesses and Adminicles abduced.

1787 Olla Podrida 15 Sept. 2 Innumerable instances could be abduced to prove, that so far from any solid advantages being derived from the practice, that it is generally pregnant with great and incurable evils.

1869 Herald of Health July 23/2 These, and a thousand other improvements, I might abduce, as an evidence of the onward march of our profession, and a proof of the necessity of constant study.

1893 New Eng. Med. Gaz. Jan. 42 To my mind the germ origin must be argued on different ground, for post, not propter hoc, is as invincible an answer in this case as in any abduced in drug action by our brothers of the other faith.

1997 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 21 Mar. a5 As the evidence abduced in Boy Clinton shows so well, the Clinton era..may be singularly responsible for that.

1939 J. Buchler Charles Peirce's Empiricism xxxvii. 132 These three classes of hypotheses..are all statements of facts ‘quite different’ from the observed facts from which they are abduced.

1973 Language 49 781 A language learner makes abductions of two sorts in formulating a phonology. He abduces a phonological structure..and he abduces a set of adaptive rules which adjust his pronunciation to the received norms.

1989 Internat. Jrnl. Lexicography 2 18 The reader needs to ‘abduce’ the meaning and function of the structure somehow.

2003 Synthese 134 31 When different sets of premises can be abduced as explanations, we need a notion of preference between them, in order to choose a best or minimal one.