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Reduction (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state
or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder ...
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Nicanor (1 Occurrence)
... Soter. After the defeat of Seron by Judas, Epiphanes entrusted his chancellor
Lysias with the reduction of Judea (1 Maccabees 3:34;). ...
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Abatement (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution,
or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance ...
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Redundance (11 Occurrences)

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Neck (97 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove
around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft. ...
/n/neck.htm - 45k

Libraries
... The more numerous the individuals and the longer the period, the greater the reduction
of error, so that the logical inference as to the Bible is that on ...
/l/libraries.htm - 38k

Gas
... to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction
from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature ...
/g/gas.htm - 7k

Waste (668 Occurrences)
... grow less. 9. (vi) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said
of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc. 10. (n.) The ...
/w/waste.htm - 37k

Incarnation (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to
apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. ...
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Face (780 Occurrences)
... 16. (n.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper,
without any addition for interest or reduction for discount. 17. ...
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Bible Concordance

Reduction (1 Occurrence)

Leviticus 27:18 but if he hallow his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, until the year of the jubilee; and there shall be a reduction from thy valuation.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.

2. (n.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce.

3. (n.) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.

4. (n.) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.

5. (n.) The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.

6. (n.) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.

7. (n.) The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.

8. (n.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.

Greek

4486. rhegnumi -- to break apart, by ext. to throw down
... of the parts; katagnumi being its intensive (with the preposition in composition),
and thrauo a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the ...
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5594. psucho -- to breathe, blow, to make cool
... a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of aer, which refers properly
to an inanimate breeze), ie (by implication, of reduction of temperature ...
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Library

A Presumption that all Things were Created by God Out of Nothing ...
... Chapter XXXIV."A Presumption that All Things Were Created by God Out of Nothing
Afforded by the Ultimate Reduction of All Things to Nothing. ...
/.../tertullian/against hermogenes/chapter xxxiv a presumption that all.htm

Political Parties in Connecticut at the Beginning of the ...
... Mr. James Davenport of Stamford moved to substitute for the bill [c] another in
which this reduction should be made by the legislature without submitting the ...
/.../chapter xiv political parties in.htm

Against Hermogenes
... Chapter XXXIV.--A Presumption that All Things Were Created by God Out of Nothing
Afforded by the Ultimate Reduction of All Things to Nothing. ...
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Whether the Whole Good of Human Nature Can be Destroyed by Sin
... Since this natural good is found to be continually diminished by sin, some have
sought to illustrate the diminution of it by the continuous reduction of a ...
/.../aquinas/nature and grace/article two whether the whole.htm

Synopsis. --The Present Net Results of the Discussion of the ...
... on this value a logical blunder."The transfer of miracles from the artillery to
the baggage of the Church."Probability of a further reduction of the list ...
/.../miracles and supernatural religion/ii synopsis the present net results.htm

Attitude of Men of the Present Day to War.
... societies in Europe and America should unite in considering means for establishing
equitable commercial relations between states, by the reduction of import ...
/.../tolstoy/the kingdom of god is within you/chapter vi attitude of men.htm

Preface to the Second Edition
... the same work. The reduction has been effected, partly by the omission
of some whole chapters, partly by excisions. The chapters ...
/.../the english church in the eighteenth century/preface to the second edition.htm

Introductory
... of the old-fashioned argument from the "evidences." Even among these latter the
tendency to minimize miracle is undeniably apparent in a reduction of the list ...
/.../whiton/miracles and supernatural religion/introductory.htm

The Beginnings of Church Reform
... which caused the Church to assume a less complacent attitude and, in her efforts
to prevent her absorption by the State, to attempt the reduction of the State ...
/.../medley/the church and the empire/chapter i the beginnings of.htm

Ninth Tractate. Detached Considerations.
... 2. . . . For in any one science the reduction of the total of knowledge into its
separate propositions does not shatter its unity, chipping it into unrelated ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/ninth tractate detached considerations.htm

Subtopics

Reduction

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Nicanor (1 Occurrence)

Abatement (1 Occurrence)

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Neck (97 Occurrences)

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Waste (668 Occurrences)

Incarnation (1 Occurrence)

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