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Capable of being educed.

y reasoning, as a result or consequence. All properties of a triangle depend on, and are deducible from, the complex idea of three lines including a space. Locke.

The quality of being deducible; deducibility.

a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.

Capable of being reduced.

Quality of being reducible.

Capable of being seduced; corruptible.

Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.

Following by consequence; consequent; deducible. [R.] "Consectary impieties." Sir T. Browne.

Deducibleness.

Deducible; consequential.

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.

Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. [R.] Godwin.

A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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

The state or quality of being irreducible.

is a law of nature. See Law, 4. (b) A term denoting the standard, or system, of morality deducible from a study of the nature and natural relations of human beings independent of supernatural revelation or of municipal and social usages. -- Law of the land, due process of law; the general law of the land. -- Laws of…

, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.

Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.

The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.