adduce

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈd(j)uːs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈdjuːs/, /əˈdʒuːs/
• (US)

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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.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.

   • 1840, Thomas de Quincey, Style (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine July 1840

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

   • 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], OCLC 1029641431:

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

Synonyms

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

 

Related terms

► English terms derived from the PIE root *dewk-‎ (0 c, 67 e)

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)
• Hungarian: felhoz (hu)

• Interlingue: aducter
• Persian: برهان آوردن‎ (borhān āvardan)
• Portuguese: aduzir (pt)
• Russian: представля́ть (ru) (predstavljátʹ), приводи́ть (ru) (privodítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: iznijeti (sh) pf
• Ukrainian: представля́ти (predstavljáty), наводи́ти (navodýty)

References

• adduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “adduce” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2020.

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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.