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educe en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɪˈduːs/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ə-/ (General-American)
  • /ɪˈdjuːs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ə-/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēdūcere (“lead out, raise up”); from ex- (“out, up”) + dūcō (“lead, pull”).

Meanings

  1. An inference.

educe en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɪˈduːs/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ə-/ (General-American)
  • /ɪˈdjuːs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ə-/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēdūcere (“lead out, raise up”); from ex- (“out, up”) + dūcō (“lead, pull”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, transitive) To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
  2. (transitive) To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.
  3. (transitive) To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
    • The justice of God may be vindicated by a belief in a future state; but, only by believing that evil is educing good for the individual, and not for an imaginary whole. 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:
  4. (transitive) To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.
  5. (transitive) To cause or generate; to bring about.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
educes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
educing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
educed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
educed Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

educer · eduction · educement · educible

Translations (12)

bg извличам (draw out, bring forth; elicit) · cs odvodit (to infer, deduce) · nl oproepen (draw out, bring forth; elicit) · nl opmaken (to infer, deduce) · nl deduceren (to infer, deduce) · es educir (to infer, deduce) · es educir (draw out, bring forth; elicit) · ca eduir (to infer, deduce) · nl afleiden (to infer, deduce) · cs vydobýt (draw out, bring forth; elicit) · cs vyvodit (to infer, deduce) · bg заключавам (to infer, deduce)