Word Meanings - DEDUCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To lead forth. He should hither deduce a colony. Selden. 2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. B. Jonson. 3. To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result

Additional info about word: DEDUCE

1. To lead forth. He should hither deduce a colony. Selden. 2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. B. Jonson. 3. 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 Pope. Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known. Locke. See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors. Sir W. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEDUCE)

• Conclude
• Close
• terminate
• complete
• end
• decide
• finish
• infer
• deduce
• determine
• argue
• Consider
• Attend
• revolve
• meditate
• think
• reflect
• investigate
• regard
• observe
• judge
• opine
• weigh
• cogitate
• deliberate
• ponder
• deem
• Derive
• Deduce
• trace
• follow
• track
• draw
• resolve
• filler
• Gather
• collect
• conclude
• derive
• Trace
• Explore
• thread
• delineate
• pursue

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEDUCE)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to DEDUCE)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• COGITATE
  To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co-
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
  A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.