Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To draw or bring out; elicit. See Synonyms at evoke.
- v. To assume or work out from given facts; deduce.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To draw out; extract, in a literal or physical sense.
- To lead or bring out; cause to appear or be manifested; bring into view or operation; evoke.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve.
WordNet 3.0
- v. develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
- v. deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
Etymologies
- Middle English educen, to direct the flow of, from Latin ēdūcere : ē-, ex-, ex- + dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“However, my experience in the MFA had more to do with the part of education that shares a common root with the word "educe" - that is, I felt my true writerly self coaxed out from within.”
“Fortunately, through the unique grace of this program, we have been educated in the truest sense of that word, which shares a common root with the word "educe" - that is, we have had our writerly selves evoked from within.”
“One manufacturer, GoFit LLC, plans to introduce a contoured version this fall to r educe strain.”
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“To the extent that the well-made-thing provokes a responsive, corrective, self-examination, it works to educe from us an ongoing, active and answering creation -- an answer that performs our longing for wholeness and reconciliation.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Cairns: Art and the Meaning of Creation
“Judaism does not ask us to ignore this darkness and the sense of doom it might educe in us.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shai Held: Lighting Up The Darkness: Hanukkah As A Spiritual Practice
“This Praxis volume celebrates and continues the efforts of Baillie scholars to educe the implications of her work for our world.”
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions
“The willingness of these two sociologists to educe social change from cultural expressions and to turn the tables on colleagues who require ideas to achieve material success before they will notice them offers a lively example of the recovery of utopianism and the rising credibility of the imagination.”
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions
“The growth area of the last two years is set to continue as enterprises aim to educe server inefficiencies and lower costs.”
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“He liked to educe comment from the untalkative man, draw him forth, make him understand that his wish to be friendless was not readily respected here.”
“The word “educate” is derived from the Latin word “educo,” meaning to educe, to bring out, to draw out, and to develop from within.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘educe’.
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Stray Dray
draw, drawn, drawing, drawning, drawful, drawless, drawling, drawsome, draw in, draw out, withdraw, drew and 50 more...
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oona's list
mongolian, inuit, vagabond, strange, hypersensitive, sarcastic,
hooliganisms, manak, redonkulous, extract, educe, omphalos, luftmensch, obsequious, missive, heteronyms, homographs, caucasian and 34 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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Need to Know!
elicit, educe, refute, cogency, churlish, martinet, veritable, polyglot, dissemble, histrionics, prevarication, verbiage and 166 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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Review
Words to study and become more familiar with.
phatic, tontine, backronym, polyptoton, fissiparous, deus ex machina, orrery, prolly, mad props, snog, oubliette, copyleft and 101 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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annscann's list
My words, generally
bavarois, bawbee, bawd, bawdry, libertine, russophobe, rubicund, gossamer, persnickety, claptrap, gesticulate, schadenfreudian and 199 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL E
ebb, ebullition, eccentric, ecclesiastical, echelon, éclat, eclectic, eclogue, ecstasy, ecumenical, edification, edify and 143 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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To Draw Out, Draw Forth or Bring Out
Verbs meaning to draw out or forth, or bring out
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