Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To draw or bring out; elicit. synonym: evoke.
- transitive verb To infer or work out from given facts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw out; extract, in a literal or physical sense.
- To lead or bring out; cause to appear or be manifested; bring into view or operation; evoke.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
draw out orbring out ;elicit orevoke - verb transitive To
infer ordeduce .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
- verb deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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However, my experience in the MFA had more to do with the part of education that shares a common root with the word "educe" - that is, I felt my true writerly self coaxed out from within.
Robert Peake Robert Peake 2010
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Fortunately, through the unique grace of this program, we have been educated in the truest sense of that word, which shares a common root with the word "educe" - that is, we have had our writerly selves evoked from within.
Robert Peake 2009
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The willingness of these two sociologists to educe social change from cultural expressions and to turn the tables on colleagues who require ideas to achieve material success before they will notice them offers a lively example of the recovery of utopianism and the rising credibility of the imagination.
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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To the extent that the well-made-thing provokes a responsive, corrective, self-examination, it works to educe from us an ongoing, active and answering creation -- an answer that performs our longing for wholeness and reconciliation.
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This Praxis volume celebrates and continues the efforts of Baillie scholars to educe the implications of her work for our world.
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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To the extent that the well-made-thing provokes a responsive, corrective, self-examination, it works to educe from us an ongoing, active and answering creation -- an answer that performs our longing for wholeness and reconciliation.
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Judaism does not ask us to ignore this darkness and the sense of doom it might educe in us.
Rabbi Shai Held: Lighting Up The Darkness: Hanukkah As A Spiritual Practice Rabbi Shai Held 2010
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One manufacturer, GoFit LLC, plans to introduce a contoured version this fall to r educe strain.
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Judaism does not ask us to ignore this darkness and the sense of doom it might educe in us.
Rabbi Shai Held: Lighting Up The Darkness: Hanukkah As A Spiritual Practice Rabbi Shai Held 2010
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The growth area of the last two years is set to continue as enterprises aim to educe server inefficiencies and lower costs.
Forward Thinking Businesses Will Use IT To Gain Competitive Advantage Thatsnews 2008
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