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Educe

verb
(past & past part. educed; pres. part. educing)
1.
Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).  Synonyms: draw out, elicit, evoke, extract.
2.
Develop or evolve from a latent or potential state.  Synonym: derive.






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"Educe" Quotes from Famous Books



... wheel turns round very fast? How useful for carters and gig drivers to know something about this; and how good were it, if any ingenious person would find out the cause of such phenomena, and thence educe a general remedy for them. Such an ingenious person was Count Rumford; and he and his successors have landed us in the theory of the persistence, or indestructibility, of force. And in the infinitely minute, as in the infinitely great, the seekers ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

... always avoided carefully discussing with Philammon any of those points on which she differed from his former faith. She was content to let the divine light of philosophy penetrate by its own power, and educe its own conclusions. But one day, at the very time at which this history reopens, she was tempted to speak more openly to her pupil than she yet had done. Her father had introduced him, a few days before, to a new work of hers on Mathematics; ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley



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