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To search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots. How perilous it is to etymologize at random. Trench.

Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.

To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. Let me say no moreGather the sequel by that went before. Shak.

To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars. A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts. Coleridge.

epresents the events of history. -- Historical sense, that meaning of a passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., under which it was written. -- The historic sense, the capacity to conceive and represent the unity and significance of a past era or age.

Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.

To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.

Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises. [Written also inferrible.] H. Spencer. A sufficient argument . . . is inferable from these premises. Burke.

Deduced or deducible by inference. "Inferential proofs." J. S. Mill.

chant, or Commercial law, a system of rules by which trade and commerce are regulated; -- deduced from the custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial decisions, as also by enactments of legislatures. -- Law of Charles (Physics), the law that the volume of a given mass of gas increases or decreases, by a definite f…

A branch of physiognomy which deduces the knowledge of a person's temper and character from the appearance of the eyes.

The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.

To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.

The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.

viding. In the decimal table, the subdivision of the cubit, as span, palm, and digit, are deduced from the shorter cubit. Arbuthnot.

To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.] The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. Tillotson.

One who derives or deduces. [Obs.] Fuller.

To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer. [Obs.] Fotherby.

Capable of being deduced; derivable. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

em.) The common name, not describing the structure and from which the structure cannot be deduced; -- contrasted with systematic name.