in Logic. See ABDUCTION.

in the Athenian Law, the carrying a criminal taken in the fact to the magistrate. If the accuser was not able to bring him to the magistrate, it was usual to take the magistrate along with him to the house where the criminal lay concealed, or defended himself.

in Mathematics, is sometimes used to denote a progress or passage from one proposition to another; when the first having been once demonstrated, is afterwards employed in the proving of others.