adduce

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈdjuːs/

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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.
   • Thomas Babington Macaulay

     Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.

   • Thomas de Quincey

     Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.

   • Leonardo da Vinci

     Whoever in discussion adduces authority, uses not reason but memory.

   • Charles Robert Darwin

     For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]

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)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: tuoda esiin (fi), esittää (fi)

• Portuguese: aduzir (pt)
• Russian: представля́ть (ru) (predstavljátʹ), приводи́ть (ru) (privodítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: iznijeti (sh) pf
• 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

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈad(j)us/

Verb

adduce (third-person singular present adduces, present participle adducin, past adduced, past participle adduced)

1. to adduce
2. (law) to bring forth as proof

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.