It has moreover the remarkable property of uniting with the phlogiston, and of being reduced to Iron without fusion; requiring for that purpose only to be made red-hot.
With relation to the second, it must be remarked that it will always admit of being reduced to the third.
On the contrary, the proper organic savours, which admit with difficulty of being reduced to the former or inorganic kinds, if they do not prove at once nauseous or unpleasant, yet become so by lengthened operation, e.
The former are those which scarcely admit of being reduced; the latter, on the contrary, those which approximate to the noble, difficultly fusible metals, namely to platinum.
Being reduced to poverty, he was obliged to sell his stock.
The indignation which the Directors felt at being reduced to this distressing situation was expressed to their servants in very strong terms.
In the letter of the above date Mr. Hastings laments the mortification of being reduced to take precautions "to guard his reputation from dishonor.
I own I feel most sensibly the mortification of being reduced to the necessity of using such precautions to guard my reputation from dishonor.
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules.
I have already suggested that possibly the primary laws admit of being reduced to some one general and comprehensive principle.
We shall find that, innumerable as the forms of mental activity may at first sight appear, they are all capable of being reduced to a few general and comprehensive classes.
Defn: Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible.
Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.
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