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With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. The faculty of writing consequentially. Addison.

mething which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence.

A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis- apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.…

To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Inference; deduction; thing deduced. [R.] Dryden.

By deduction.

To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc. To show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from the [the estimates]. Burke.

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set-off. Abbott.

To show, or make evident, by reasoning or proof; to prove by deduction; to establish so as to exclude the possibility of doubt or denial. We can not demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction. From the Euphrates into an artificial derivation of that river. Gibbon.

That which is derived; deduction; inference. [Obs.] I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.

An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods. Simmonds.

A lose of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature. The avaridrawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. Hallam.

The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate,

A logical deduction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

e; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc. -- Er*ro"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Er*ro"ne*ous*ness, n.

s of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton.

ow in marriage. -- To give the head. See under Head, n. -- To give in. (a) To abate; to deduct. (b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender; as, to give in one's adhesion to a party. -- To give the lie to (a person), to tell (him) that he lies. -- To give line. See under Line. -- To give off, to emit, as…