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verb

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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... precision and accuracy is shown in some marginal corrections he made in his own printed copy of "The Decline and Fall." On the first page in his first printed edition and as it now stands, he said, "To deduce the most important circumstances of its decline and fall: a revolution which will ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth." For this the following is substituted: "To prosecute the decline and fall of the empire of Rome: of whose language, religion, ...

— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes

... admit the claims which the local priests attempted to deduce from this romantic tale? and did the god regain possession of the domains and dues which they declared had been his right? The stele shows us with what ease the scribes could forge official documents when the exigencies of daily life forced the necessity ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various

... to point out that these chapters are among those which have never before been published. The description in No. 607 may be regarded as a preliminary sketch for this one. As the MS. G. (in which it is to be found) must be attributed to the period of about 1515 we may deduce from it the approximate date of the drawings on Pl. XXXIV, XXXV, Nos. 2 and 3, XXXVI and XXXVII, since they obviously belong to this text. The drawings No. 2 on Pl. XXXV are, in the original, side by side with the text ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... therefore, a company of men of business and men of rank, formed by the experience of Gosnold, the enthusiasm of Smith, the perseverance of Hakluyt, the influence of Popham and Gorges, applied to James I. for leave "to deduce a colony into Virginia," the monarch, on the tenth of April, 1606, readily set his seal to ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various

... conventional laboratory work. There is only one way to get the habit of right "following through" in reasoning; this is, always to do the thing. When data are observed or are furnished it is a pedagogical sin on the part of the teacher to allow the student to stop at that point; and equally so to deduce the conclusion for the student, or to allow the writer of the textbook to do so, or at any time to induce the student to accept from another a conclusion which he himself might reach from the data. We have depended too much on ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

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