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Act or process of deducing or inferring. The deduction of one language from another. Johnson. This process, by which from two statements we deduce a third, is called deduction. J. R. Seely.

The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

To prove or evince; too manifest or exhibit by inference, deduction, or reasoning. So many laws argue so many sins. Milton.

To allow by way of abatement or deduction. To whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament. South.

ther; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine. Our conqueror (whom I now…

To gain without deduction; to net. The profit which she cleared on the cargo. Macaulay. To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires. -- To clear a ship for action, or To…

weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary. [R.] Milton.

Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions. Consequent points, Consequent poles (Magnetism), a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities.…

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.

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

By deduction.

Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.

By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.

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.