1. To lead forth. [A Latinism]
He should hither deduce a colony.
Selden. 2. To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
3. To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather,
as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; — with from or out of.
O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes
From the dire nation in its early times?
Pope.
Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.
Locke.
See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors.
Sir W. Scott. Deducement
(De*duce"ment) n. Inference; deduction; thing deduced. [R.] Dryden.
Deducibility
(De*du`ci*bil"i*ty) n. Deducibleness.
Deducible
(De*du"ci*ble) a.
1. Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by 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. 2. Capable of being brought down. [Obs.]
As if God [were] deducible to human imbecility.
State Trials Deducibleness
(De*du"ci*ble*ness), n. The quality of being deducible; deducibility.
Deducibly
(De*du"ci*bly) adv. By deduction.
Deducive
(De*du"cive) a. That deduces; inferential.
Deduct
(De*duct") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deducted; p. pr. & vb. n. Deducting.] [L. deductus, p. p. of
deducere to deduct. See Deduce.]
1. To lead forth or out. [Obs.]
A people deducted out of the city of Philippos.
Udall. 2. To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; — often with
from or out of.
Deduct what is but vanity, or dress.
Pope.
Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops.
Bp. Burnet.
We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy.
Norris. 3. To reduce; to diminish. [Obs.] "Do not deduct it to days." Massinger.
Deductible
(De*duct"i*ble) a.
