Definitions
characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment
Word origin
From Middle French réductif, from Late Latin reductivus, from the participle stem of Latin reducere (“to reduce”).
Used in a sentence
“On the relative reductive powers of different classes of American coals, as demonstrated by the experiments with oxide of lead.”
“But then beside the primary and direct sense of the text, the ancients commonly supposed that there was a reductive or anagogical meaning, in which it might be taken.”
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01“Overly simplifying”9 letters
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