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Deduce

//dɪˈdʒuːs// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts. transitive

    "[T]he puritan buyldeth directly vpon the proteſtants firſt groundes in religion, & deduceth therof clearly and by ordinary conſequence al his concluſions, which the proteſtant cannot deny by divinity, but only by pollicy & humane ordination, or by turning to catholique anſwers contrary to ther owne principles: […]"

  2. 2
    reason by deduction; establish by deduction wordnet
  3. 3
    To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner. transitive, uncommon

    "Pye[d-mantle]. […] Sir, I haue drawne / A Pedigree for her Grace, though yet a Nouice / In that ſo noble ſtudy. […] I haue deduc'd her.— […]"

  4. 4
    conclude by reasoning; in logic wordnet
  5. 5
    To obtain (something) from some source; to derive. archaic, transitive

    "O Goddeſs, ſay, ſhall I deduce my rhimes / From the dire nation in its early times, / Europa’s rape, Agenor’s ſtern decree, / And Cadmus ſearching round the ſpacious ſea?"

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  1. 6
    To be derived or obtained from some source. archaic, intransitive

    "[B]y the ſtatute 7 Ann. c. 21 […] it is enacted, that, after the death of the pretender, and his ſons, no attainder for treaſon ſhall extend to the diſinheriting any heir, nor the prejudice of any perſon, other than the offender himſelf: which proviſions have indeed carried the remedy farther, than was required by the hardſhip above complained of; which is only the future obſtruction of deſcents, where the pedigree happens to be deduced through the blood of an attainted anceſtor."

  2. 7
    To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something). obsolete, transitive

    "to deduce a part from the whole"

  3. 8
    To lead (something) forth. obsolete, transitive

    "Richard of the Vies will that Penda, K[ing] of Mereland, firſt deduced a colony of Cambridge men hither and cals it Crekelade, as other Kirklade with variety of names: […]"

Etymology

From Late Middle English deducen (“to demonstrate, prove, show; to argue, infer; to bring, lead; to turn (something) to a use; to deduct”), borrowed from Latin dēdūcere, the present active infinitive of dēdūcō (“to lead or bring out or away; to accompany, conduct, escort; (figuratively) to derive, discover, deduce”); from dē- (prefix meaning ‘from, away from’) + dūcere (the present active infinitive of dūcō (“to conduct, guide, lead; to draw, pull; to consider, regard, think”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to lead; to draw, pull”)).

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