Adductive

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Adducing or bringing forward.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
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  • adjective. Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
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  • adjective. especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part
  • Word Usage
    "Scotus's system as opposed to Thomism: his formalism in the doctrine of God and the Trinity, his loose conception of the Hypostatic Union, his relaxation of the bonds uniting the sacraments with the humanity of Christ, his explanation of transubstantiation as an adductive substitution, his emphasis on the supremacy of the will, and so on."