[ad. L. ēductum, neut. pa. pple. of ēdūcĕre to EDUCE.] That which is educed.

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  1.  Chem. ‘A body separated by the decomposition of another in which it previously existed as such, in contradistinction to product, which denotes a compound not previously existing, but formed during the decomposition’ (Watts, Dict. Chem.).

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1799.  Kirwan, Geol. Ess., 197. To form an idea of the composition of this stone … we must consider the educts of its analysis.

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1805.  Hatchett, in Phil. Trans., XCV. 299. In the first experiment it was obtained as a product, and not as an educt. Ibid., 312, note. Consequently the latter … is considered as an original ingredient or educt.

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1875.  H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 628. The black coloring-matter of such urine is in all probability an educt from carbolic acid.

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  2.  A result of inference or of development.

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1816.  Coleridge, Lay Serm., 321. In the Scriptures, they are the living educts of the imagination.

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1857.  Sir W. Hamilton, Reid, 784. All our knowledge is an Educt from Experience.

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1865.  Reader, 22 July, 86/3. Throw revelation overboard, and its educt, natural theology … must bear it company.

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