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derivement en · NOUN

Etymology

From derive + -ment.

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete) Something derived; a deduction, inference, or derivative.
   • Artificial derivements are provided in the Malaysian Income Tax Act and broadly fall under five concepts: 2006, Malaysian Master Tax Guide - Volume 23, page 147:
   • So that lay presbyteries under the gospel can have no agreement with the synedrical courts of Moses, much less any derivement from them; unless they will tie all Christian kingdoms to the tribunals and judicials of Moses' law, and give their elders the sword instead of the word, which God hath assigned to princes and not to presbyters. 1842, Thomas Bilson, The Perpetual Government of Christ's Church, page 6:
   • I offer these derivements from these subjects, to rise our affections upward. 1648, Walter Montagu, Miscellanea Spiritualia:
   • Surely, I thought, there must be a record of these quaint and fascinationg old public-house signs which so richly reflect the thought, manners, and history of a people, and surely the indefatigable Dr. Brewer could never have passed up such intriguing derivements (obsolete but such a lovely word) . 1942, Otto C. Lightner, Pearl Ann Reeder, Hobbies - Volume 47, Part 1, page 34:
   • The toxic effect of EtOH is caused by the following metabolites: MeCHO, MeCOCO₂H, and “CPF," a derivement of MeCOCO₂H , that potentiates the effect of the acid. 1954, Journal of Mental Science - Volume 100, page 333:
2. (uncountable) The act or process of deriving; derivation.
   • She had also participated with the derivement of certain laws to make the world a safer place. 2010, Pastor Edwards, Beef Up My What?, page 42:
   • The features of refinement are as important as the mechanical development for the derivement of continued pleasure. 1914, The Haynes Pioneer - Volume 2:
   • These correlations should be particularly high, say in the .6 to .8 range because of the common variance attributed to the derivement of all the measures from paper and pencil techniques...” 2003, Aaron Cohen, Multiple Commitments in the Workplace, page 58:
   • The core methodology is conceptually the same as in our previous work on the derivement of labels for sentences by similarity-based clustering of sentence contents. 2005, Asuncion Gómez-Pérez, Jerome Euzenat, The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, page 610:

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