Meaning

(obsolete, countable) Something derived; a deduction, inference, or derivative..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, countable) Something derived; a deduction, inference, or derivative.
2. (uncountable) The act or process of deriving; derivation.

Example Sentences

I offer these derivements from these subjects, to rise our affections upward.

So that lay presbyteries under the gospel can have no agreement with the synedrical courts of Moses, much less any derivement from them; unless they will tie all Christian kingdoms to the tribunals and judicials of Moses' law, and give their elders the sword instead of the word, which God hath assigned to princes and not to presbyters.

Surely, I thought, there must be a record of these quaint and fascinationg old public-house signs which so richly reflect the thought, manners, and history of a people, and surely the indefatigable Dr. Brewer could never have passed up such intriguing derivements (obsolete but such a lovely word) .

The toxic effect of EtOH is caused by the following metabolites: MeCHO, MeCOCO₂H, and “CPF," a derivement of MeCOCO₂H , that potentiates the effect of the acid.

Artificial derivements are provided in the Malaysian Income Tax Act and broadly fall under five concepts:

The features of refinement are as important as the mechanical development for the derivement of continued pleasure.

These correlations should be particularly high, say in the .6 to .8 range because of the common variance attributed to the derivement of all the measures from paper and pencil techniques...”

The core methodology is conceptually the same as in our previous work on the derivement of labels for sentences by similarity-based clustering of sentence contents.

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When Should You Use Derivement?

Use derivement when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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