DEDUCE, v.t. [L. To lead, bring or draw.] 1. To draw from; to bring from.O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times?2. To draw from, in reasoning; to gather a truth, opinion or proposition from premises; to infer something from what precedes.Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.3. To deduct.4. To transplant.
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