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. - DELINEATE
Delineated; portrayed. - CONCLUDENCY
Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale. - 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. - PONDERARY
Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch. - COLLECTIBLE
Capable of being collected. - 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.