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in the schools, a manner of bringing a term or proposition, which was before opposite to some other, to be equivalent to it.

in arithmetic. See Arithmetick, p. 380.

in surgery, denotes an operation whereby a dislocated, luxated, or fractured bone is restored to its former state or place.

in Scots law. -See Law, Tit. xxx. 3.