educe

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  1. transitive verb To draw or bring out; elicit. See Synonyms at evoke.
  2. transitive verb To assume or work out from given facts; deduce.

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  • US cld not, i educe, act in slovakia, lithuania, slovenia, et al, as it behaves ... —  Dissident Voice
  • So far as he does this, will he be able to feel the force of such evidence as we shall educe in what follows, and to comprehend its true meaning. —  Shaister Miester Do Da
  • It tries to educe--that is, draw out--what is in the child already; its own native instincts and native conscience. —  Westminster Sermons with a Preface
  • The word education means to educe, to draw out the powers of the mind; not the cramming into it of facts, dates and whole pages to be repeated verbatim AN EDUCATION APPROPRIATE TO EACH SEX The fact is becoming more palpable every year that there is an education appropriate to each sex; that identical education for the two sexes is so unnatural, that physiology protests against it and experience weeps over it. —  Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society
  • Fannie Mae had to r educe its surplus by $9 billion. —  Lowell Sun Forum
 

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  1. Middle English educen, to direct the flow of, from Latin ēdūcere : ē-, ex-, ex- + dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish educir = Portuguese eduzir = Italian educere, from Latin educere, bring out, etc., from e, out, + ducere, lead, draw: see duct, and cf. educate, adduce, conduce, induce, produce, etc.
 

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