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/

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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.

   • 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

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

 

Related terms

▼ English terms derived from the PIE root *dewk-‎ (0 c, 65 e)

  abduce

  abduct

  abduction

  adduce

  adduct

  adduction

  aqueduct

  co-educate

  conduce

  conduct

  conductor

  deduce

  deduct

  doge

  douche

  ducal

  ducat

  duchess

  duchy

  duct

  duke

  dux

  educable

  educatable

  educate

  educatee

  education

  educational

  educationalist

  educative

  educator

  heretog

  heretoga

  induce

  induct

  induction

  inductor

  introduce

  introduction

  produce

  product

  production

  productive

  reduce

  reduction

  redux

  resubdue

  seduce

  seduction

  subduable

  subdual

  subduct

  subduction

  subdue

  subduer

  team

  tee

  teem

  tie

  touch

  tow

  traduce

  transduce

  tuck

  tug

Translations

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

• Bulgarian: привеждам (bg) (priveždam), изтъквам (bg) (iztǎkvam)
• Chinese:

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

• Interlingue: aducter
• Persian: برهان آوردن‎ (borhān āvardan)
• 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.
• “adduce” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

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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.