In fact, to my mind, it reduces the whole suspicion to an absurdity.

You see, the whole question reduces itself to that old, heartless, but very sane doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number.

A and B give no evidence of sugar, while C reduces the Fehling, giving a yellow or red deposit of cuprous oxide.

"Alcohol, instead of preventing consumption, as was once believed, reduces the vitality so much as to render the system unusually susceptible to that fatal disease.

The distress which follows and chastises extravagant luxury often reduces the great to use the most humiliating expedients.

Cold wet weather reduces the produce.

How can you be so rash as to make the very same mistakes which have been the destruction of former governments, and also so unmindful of your own honour as to commit the very crime which reduces you to the same level as your enemies?

Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers.

Sensations, to which he, too, reduces all mental life, are, in his view, reactions of the immaterial soul to sense stimuli, which operate merely as occasional causes.

Colecchi reduces the Kantian categories to two, substance and cause.

The Code Noir of the South robs the slave of all his rights as a man, reduces him to a chattel personal, and defends the master in the exercise of the most unnatural and unwarrantable power over his slave.

Sixth, that slavery in America reduces a man to a thing, a "chattel personal," robs him of all his rights as a human being, fetters both his mind and body, and protects the master in the most unnatural and unreasonable power, whilst it throws him out of the protection of law.

The Code Noir of the South robs the slave of all his rights as a man, reduces him to a chattel personal, and defends the master in the exercise of the most unnatural and unwarrantable power over his slave.

Sixth, that slavery in America reduces a man to a thing, a "chattel personal," robs him of all his rights as a human being, fetters both his mind and body, and protects the master in the most unnatural and unreasonable power, whilst it throws him out of the protection of law.

In the apparatus of Mr. Angele, of Berlin, shown in the annexed cuts (Figs. 1 and 2), the potatoes, after being cleaned in the washer, C, slide through the chute, v, into a rasp, D, which reduces them to a fine pulp under the action of a continuous current of water led in by the pipe, d.

It reduces the general idea of the common noun to any one individual of the class: as, "A man;" that is, "One man, or any man."

"O! the humiliation to which vice reduces us.

The cause of the latter is partly a certain incapacity of life, partly the inheritance of my race and the disease of the times in which I live, and finally that over-analysis which does not permit me to follow the first, simple impulses of nature, but criticises until it reduces the soul to utter impotence.

He relaxes certain clauses in leases, he reduces the ground game, he shows a disposition to meet reasonable, and even unreasonable, demands.

The poor man has but a few shillings a week, and the clergyman is the friend of the farmer, who reduces his wagesthe Church owns millions and millions sterling.

Raymond d'Agiles, chaplain to the count of Toulouse, reduces still further to twelve thousand the number of foot capable of bearing arms, and that of the knights to twelve or thirteen hundred.

Contemporary historians put the army of Otho at one hundred thousand, and that of Philip Augustus at from fifty to sixty thousand men; but amongst modern historians one of the most eminent, M. Sismondi, reduces them both to some fifteen or twenty thousand.

might have seen floating down the Seine; La Popeliniere reduces them to one thousand.

If wet, the water quickly drains from them, and they are ready to be put into the stove, where a very little fire soon reduces them to ashes.

Cross grain of any kind materially reduces the tensile strength of wood, since the tensile strength at right angles to the grain is only a small fraction of that parallel to the grain.