Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of inferring or drawing conclusions.
- noun A conclusion drawn; a deduction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of inferring from premises; inference.
- noun That which is inferred; an inference; a deduction; a conclusion.
- noun In liturgics: The act of bringing the eucharistic elements into the church and placing them on the altar.
- noun In the Mozarabic liturgy, the eucharistic preface. It is of great length, and varies according to the Sunday or festival.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
inferring or concluding, especially from a set of premises; aconclusion , adeduction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
Etymologies
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Examples
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While it would appear that boys and girls followed a common curriculum, there was gender differentiation: Girls received instruction in sewing and needlework and boys in cantillation of Torah and haftarah.
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For it hath to do both in knowledge and opinion, and is necessary and assisting to all our other intellectual faculties, and indeed contains two of them, viz. sagacity and illation.
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There is an important sense, however, in which the epithet "material" has been applied to reasoning, to denote illation in which the relational formality has not yet been dissected out.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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"I can neither contradict," quoth I, "thy former propositions, and I see this illation followeth from them."
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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"A strange illation," quoth I, "and hard to be granted; but I see that those things which were granted before agree very well with these."
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Revolution is alleged, and most unreasonably alleged, to have alienated him from liberalism: 'it is a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.
On Compromise John Morley 1880
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What Burke means by compromise, and what every true statesman understands by it, is that it may be most inexpedient to meddle with an institution merely because it does not harmonise with 'argument and logical illation.'
On Compromise John Morley 1880
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It is, besides, a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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It is besides a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.
Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America Edmund Burke 1763
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It is not an if of doubting, but of illation and concession; seeing he hath wronged thee, and thereby has become indebted to thee; such an if as Col.iii. 1 and 2 Pet.ii. 4, &c.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
qms commented on the word illation
Concerning our great tribulation
I offer a hopeful illation:
The problem derives
From imbibing lies
And abstinence ends pixilation.
November 12, 2018