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Deduce v. t. (past & past part. deduced; pres. part. deducing)

To lead forth. (A Latinism) "He should hither deduce a colony."

To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. (Obs.)

To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; with from or out of. "O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times?" "Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known." "See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors."

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... documents which have reached us from the history of India and Egypt reveal that they had landed property fully established, while Roman annals reveal to us the very creation of this institution. Whatever modern criticism may deduce, Dionysius, Plutarch, Livy, and Cicero agree in representing the first king of Rome as merely establishing public property in Roman soil. This national property, the people possessed in common and not individually. ...

— Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic • Andrew Stephenson

... the explanation of nature and the philosophizing of unschooled humanity is consummated in the form of myths, we can deduce from the preceding an analogy between myth making and dreaming. This analogy is much further developed by psychoanalysis. Freud blazes a path with the following words: "The research into these concepts of folk psychology [myths, sagas, ...

— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer

... time for theory had come. Faraday saw mentally the rotating disk, under the operation of the magnet, flooded with his induced currents, and from the known laws of interaction between currents and magnets he hoped to deduce the motion observed by Arago. That hope he realized, showing by actual experiment that when his disk rotated currents passed through it, their position and direction being such as must, in accordance with the established ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various

... we deduce," demanded a talkative and obtrusively clever person in a late City train, "from the circumstance that all thirty of the Park Lane brigands ...

— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer

... "deduce" that there's a woman in the case, for there never has been one before. There were sometimes several, I admit. But never One. Trust you to see the distinction! Have you been pumping Marcel? You may as well admit it if you have, for I shall ask him ...

— The Lightning Conductor Discovers America • C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel)

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