educe
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin ēdūcere, present active infinitive of ēdūcō (“lead out, raise up”); from ex- (“out, up”) + dūcō (“lead, pull”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈduːs/, /ə-/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈdjuːs/, /ə-/
- Rhymes: -uːs
- Hyphenation: e‧duce
Verb[edit]
educe (third-person singular simple present educes, present participle educing, simple past and past participle educed)
- (transitive, now rare) To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. [from 17th c.]
- 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men[1]:
- The justice of God may be vindicated by a belief in a future state; but, only by believing that evil is educing good for the individual, and not for an imaginary whole.
- (transitive, chemistry) To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To cause or generate; to bring about. [from 19th c.]
Translations[edit]
to infer, deduce
draw out, bring forth; elicit
Noun[edit]
educe
- An inference.
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Verb[edit]
educe
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
ēdūce
Romanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
educe
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
educe
- inflection of educir:
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