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Deduce v. t. (past & past part. deduced; pres. part. deducing)

To lead forth. (A Latinism) "He should hither deduce a colony."

To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. (Obs.)

To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; with from or out of. "O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times?" "Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known." "See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors."

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"Deduce" Quotes from Famous Books

... one of the things we learn, and if you heard somebody called 'Old Man Something-or-other,' why, you'd deduce something from it, wouldn't you? And you'd be kind of scared-like. But even if you deduce that a man is going to be mad and gruff, kind of, even still you got to remember that you're a scout and if you damaged his property you got to go and tell him, anyway. ...

— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh

... school, and must necessarily anticipate the elementary science of the latter. In this year more responsibility should be given to the pupils and more originality should be expected of them. Where they have hitherto followed recipes and been given rules, they should now follow principles and deduce rules. ...

— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management • Ministry of Education

... a moody moment to busy himself with mathematics, much as he hated them, and deduce a singular fact. He had spent delicious hours of many a day with many a maid. But days and days and ...

— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple

... thirty years ago even the beginnings of civilization were unknown. Yet the mysterious agent has not changed. It is as it was when creation began to shape itself out of chaos and the abyss. Men have changed in their ability to reason, to deduce, to discover, and to construct. To know has become a part of the sum of life; to understand or to abandon is the rule. When the ages of tradition, of assertion without the necessity for proof, of content with ...

— Steam Steel and Electricity • James W. Steele

... or to say, that things near the earth tend to fall to the earth; but he was the first to formulate and prove the doctrine of universal gravitation. In the same way, all through history, we find that a few master minds have been able to group what had theretofore seemed unrelated phenomena, and deduce from them certain laws. In this way they substituted reasoning for speculation, fact for fancy, wisdom for opportunism, and became the ...

— The Navy as a Fighting Machine • Bradley A. Fiske

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