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deduce

verb
/dɪˈdʒuːs//dɪˈdus/US

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”)).

  1. derived from *dewk-✻ — “to lead; to draw, pull”
  2. derived from dēdūcere
  3. inherited from deducen — “to demonstrate, prove, show; to argue, infer; to bring, lead; to turn (something) to a use; to deduct”

Definitions

  1. To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given…

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

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

  2. To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner.

    • 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.— […]
    • It ſeems there is ſome angry Star that hath hung over this Buſineſs of the Palatinate from the beginning of theſe German Wars to this very Day, which will too evidently appear, if one ſhould mark and deduce Matters from their firſt Riſe.

  3. To obtain (something) from some source

    To obtain (something) from some source; to derive.

    • 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?
    • The Spring whence thou [Hugh Myddelton] deduced'st the ample stream, / The Poet's and Historian's theme, / Trenching thy mighty aqueduct a way, / 'Till as the humble plains, the aspiring hills obey.
    • Do not, my children, O do not accustom yourselves to such warfares, / Nor on your country's vitals thus turn your invincible valor: / Sooner refrain thou, thou who deducest thy race from Olympus!
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To be derived or obtained from some source.

    2. To take away (something)

      To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something).

      • to deduce a part from the whole
      • Pra[ctise]. […] Well, Sir, the Contract / Is with this Gentleman, ten thouſand pound. […] Int[erest]. And what I have furniſh'd him with all o' the by, / To appeare, or ſo: A matter of foure hundred, / To be deduc'd upo' the payment—.

    3. To lead (something) forth.

      • 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: […]

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Derived

deducement, deducibility, deducible, deducing, deducive, nondeducible, undeduced, undeducible

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at deduce. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at deduce. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at deduce

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA