Middle English Dictionary Entry
redūcing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | redūcing(e ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Conversion to righteousness; (b) tracing a statement or thesis back to its source; (c) surg. setting a fracture or dislocation; ~ binding, ligature ~, a supporting bandage.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1460) DSPhilos.(Helm)121/34 : The wise man shulde nat highe himself ayenst an ignorant but meeke him to him..for..to gouerne him gentilly, it is a redusynge in-to goodnesse.
b
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)465 : Þis same seid symple leuyng to scripture and to doctouris schendiþ our verry scole leernyng..and bryngiþ it al vndir credence to be ȝouen to writers and expowners, wiþout eny ferþer reducing and resoluyng into þe groundis whiche þo writers and expowners leneden to.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)20a/a : Among þise iuncturez the more hard to dislocacioun & to reducing is þat of þe litel fote.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)100b/a : Þo þat ar to þe outward ar of liȝt reducyng [Ch.(2): esy to redresse; L facilis reductionis]; þo þat ar forsoþ to þe inward ar of hard.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)72/24 : A cirurgene may considre..þe maner of reducynge [L reducendi], i. settynge aȝen into ioynte.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)497/17 : Bynde it with a reducynge byndinge [*Ch.(1): a ligature reducyng; L ligatura reducente].