educe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēdūcere (“lead out, raise up”); from ex- (“out, up”) + dūcō (“lead, pull”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈduːs/, /ə-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈdjuːs/, /ə-/

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• Rhymes: -uːs
• Hyphenation: e‧duce

Verb

educe (third-person singular simple present educes, present participle educing, simple past and past participle educed)

1. (transitive, now rare) To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. [from 16th c.]
3. (transitive) To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. [from 17th c.]
   • 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men‎:

     The justice of God may be vindicated by a belief in a future state; but, only by believing that evil is educing good for the individual, and not for an imaginary whole.

4. (transitive, chemistry) To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract. [from 17th c.]
5. (transitive) To cause or generate; to bring about. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• educement
• educible
• eduction

Translations

to infer, deduce

Bulgarian: заключавам (bg) (zaključavam) Catalan: eduir (ca) Dutch: deduceren (nl), afleiden (nl), opmaken (nl)(2) Spanish: educir (es)

draw out, bring forth; elicit

Bulgarian: извличам (bg) (izvličam) Dutch: oproepen (nl) Spanish: educir (es)

Noun

educe

1. An inference.

Anagrams

• deuce

Italian

Verb

educe

1. third-person singular present indicative of edurre

Anagrams

• cedue

Latin

Verb

ēdūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ēdūcō

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eˈdut͡ʃe]

Verb

educe

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of educa

Spanish

Verb

educe

1. inflection of educir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative