educe
[verb]
Synonyms: elicit, evince, evoke, extort, extract, milk, derive, evolve, excogitate

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Contrasted words: miss, overlook, pass over
Related Words: drag, draw, draw out, pull, wrest, wring, gain, get, obtain, procure, secure, distill, reason (out), think (out)

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educe verb trans. [ɪ'dju:s] LME.
[Latin educere, from e- E- + ducere to lead.]
1. Lead or draw out; Medicine remove by drawing out. LME-M17.

2. Bring out or develop from latent or rudimentary existence; elicit; evoke. E17.
■ T. Gale Chaos was that ancient slime, out of which al things were educed.

3. Infer (a principle etc.) from a set of data. M19.
■ J. Barzun In most subjects few attempts are made to educe principles from ever larger masses of facts.

■ educible adjective L17.

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