Crossword clues for educe
educe
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Educe \E*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Educed; p. pr. & vb. n. Educing.] [L. educere; e out + ducere to lead. See Duke.] To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter.
The eternal art educing good from ill.
--Pope.
They want to educe and cultivate what is best and
noblest in themselves.
--M. Arnold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., in the literal sense, "to draw out, extract; branch out," from Latin educere "to lead out, bring out" (troops, ships, etc.; see educate). Meaning "bring into view or operation" is from c.1600. Meaning "to draw a conclusion from data" is from 1837.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To draw out or bring out; elicit or evoke. 2 (context transitive English) To infer or deduce.
WordNet
Usage examples of "educe".
It was planned by one of the autochthonous inhabitants with the most ingenious combination of inconveniences that the natural man could educe from his original perversity of intellect.
Chekhovian versus the Tolstoyan approach: educe these worlds entire, or sketch them, evoke them, from the glint of moonlight off a broken bottle, footprints on the beach, one episode from a single life.
Intuition was one of his two psi faculties which were educed by neurohormones.
As an essential part of a narrative educed by your question it is related here without hesitancy or shame.
By bringing jealousy into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had educed the justice of revenge.
Perchance, then, even as meat is in ruminating brought up out of the belly, so by calling to mind are these educed from the memory.