ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Led or carried away improperly, kidnapped.
1879. J. Beerbohm, Wanderings in Patagonia, v. 64. The bay stallion, his wrongs avenged and his abducted wives restored to his affectionate keeping, kept neighing and tossing up his heels in a state of high glee.
1882. J. Hawthorne, Fortune’s Fool, I. xii. (in Macm. Mag., XLV. 273). By to-morrow morning Madeleine would have lived out her character of the abducted heiress.
2. Of a member of the body: Drawn away.
1872. Huxley, Physiology, VII. 174. A limb is … abducted when it is drawn away from the middle line.
