Deduce

/dɪˈdʒuːs/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
2. (transitive, uncommon) To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner.
3. (transitive, archaic) To obtain (something) from some source; to derive.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To be derived or obtained from some source.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something).
6. (transitive, obsolete, based on the word’s Latin etymon) To lead (something) forth.

Example Sentences

[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: […]

[T]hoſe principles or firſt poſitions, have no diſcordance with that reaſon, which draweth downe and diduceth the inferiour poſitions.

Laſtly, One way more there may be of miſtake, at that not unuſuall among us, grounded upon a double compute of the year; the one beginning from the 25 of March, the other from the day of our birth unto the ſame again, which is the naturall account. Now hereupon many men frequently miſcaſt their daies; for in their age they diduce the account not from the day of their birth, but the year of our Lord, wherein they were born.

Counsell, is where a man ſaith, Doe, or Doe not this, and deduceth his reaſons from the benefit that arriveth by it to him to whom he ſaith it. And from this it is evident, that he that giveth Counſell, pretendeth onely (whatſoever he intendeth) the good of him, to whom he giveth it.

From the comparative weight or lightneſs of the Air at different times, he deduceth alſo the riſing and falling of Vapours in it.

But how then can thoſe Men think the uſe of Reaſon neceſſary to diſcover Principles that are ſupposed innate, when Reaſon (if we may believe them) is nothing elſe, but the Faculty of deducing unknown Truths from Principles or Propoſitions, that are already known?

Now Principles, when deduced by Diſcourſe of ſound Reaſon, may, from the Content of Mankind, take the Name and Force of a Law; but the Faculty which deduceth thoſe Principles, cannot with the leaſt Propriety be deemed a Law. This is confounding Cauſes with Effects, and attributing the Property to the Faculty creating, which only belongs to the Subject created.

I do not know that the relation of my disasters will be useful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imagine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale; one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking, and console you in case of failure.

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