adduce
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From Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + ducere (“to lead”). See duke, and confer adduct.
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adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)
- (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
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- Reasons ... were adduced on both sides. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - Thomas de Quincey.
- Whoever in discussion adduces authority, uses not reason but memory. - Leonardo da Vinci
- For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, - Charles Robert Darwin
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to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration
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[edit] References
- adduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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adduce
- third-person singular present indicative of addurre
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addūce
- second-person singular present active imperative of addūcō
