adduce

English

Etymology

From Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + ducere (“to lead”). See duke, and confer adduct.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːs

Verb

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)

1. (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

   • 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

Synonyms

• present
• allege
• advance
• cite
• quote
• assign
• urge
• name
• mention

Related terms

• adduct
• adduction

Translations

to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration

• Bulgarian: привеждам (bg) (priveždam), изтъквам (bg) (iztǎkvam)
• Finnish: tuoda esiin (fi), esittää (fi)

• Russian: представлять (ru) (predstavlját'), приводить (ru) (privodít')
• Ukrainian: представляти (predstavljáti), наводити (navodíti)

References

• adduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Italian

Verb

adduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of addurre

Anagrams

• deduca

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Latin

Verb

addūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of addūcō