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Abductions
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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abduction (æbˈdʌkʃən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act of taking someone away by force or cunning; kidnapping |
| 2. | the action of certain muscles in pulling a leg, arm, etc away from the median axis of the body |
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Word Origin & History
abduction
1620s, "a leading away," from L. abductionem (nom. abductio), noun of action from abducere "to lead away," from ab- "away" + ducere "to lead" (see duke). The illegal activity so called from 1768; before that the word also was a term in surgery and logic. In the Mercian hymns,
L. abductione is glossed by O.E. wiðlaednisse.
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