diduce

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A form of deduce — To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verbdiduce (third-person singular simple present diduces, present participle diducing, simple past and past participle diduced)

present singular third person diduces · participle present diducing · participle past diduced · past diduced · first person past singular diduced · archaic present second person singular diducest · past second person singular diduced · archaic past second person singular diducedst · present singular third person diduces · archaic present singular third person diduceth · past singular third person diduced · past plural diduced · past subjunctive diduced · participle present diducing · participle past diduced

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of deduce.

    [T]hoſe principles or firſt poſitions, have no diſcordance with that reaſon, which draweth downe and diduceth the inferiour poſitions.

    1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 110, verso
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    Laſtly, One way more there may be of miſtake, at that not unuſuall among us, grounded upon a double compute of the year; the one beginning from the 25 of March, the other from the day of our birth unto the ſame again, which is the naturall account. Now hereupon many men frequently miſcaſt their daies; for in their age they diduce the account not from the day of their birth, but the year of our Lord, wherein they were born.

    1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Great Climactericall Year, that is, Sixty Three”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 4th book, page 187
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