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<p><b>3.</b> <def>An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor.</def>

<h1>Dedicator</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>Ded"i*ca`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.: cf. F. <ets>d\'82dicateur</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.</def>

<h1>Dedicatorial</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>Ded`i*ca*to"ri*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Dedicatory.</def>

<h1>Dedicatory</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>Ded"i*ca*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82dicatoire</ets>.]</ety> <def>Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental.</def> "An epistle <i>dedicatory</i>."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Dedicatory</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>Ded"i*ca*to*ry</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Dedication.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Dedimus</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>Ded"i*mus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dedimus</ets> we have given, fr. <ets>dare</ets> to give. So called because the writ began, <ets>Dedimus potestatem</ets>, etc.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc.</def>

<i>Bouvier.</i>

<h1>Dedition</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*di"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>deditio</ets>, fr. <ets>dedere</ets> to give away, surrender; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>dare</ets> to give.]</ety> <def>The act of yielding; surrender.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Sir M. Hale.</i>

<h1>Dedolent</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>Ded"o*lent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dedolens</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>dedolere</ets> to give over grieving; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>dolere</ets> to grieve.]</ety> <def>Feeling no compunction; apathetic.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Hallywell.</i>

<h1>Deduce</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*duce"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Deduced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Deducing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>deducere</ets>; <ets>de-</ets> + <ets>ducere</ets> to lead, draw. See <er>Duke</er>, and cf. <er>Deduct</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To lead forth.</def> <mark>[A Latinism]</mark>

<blockquote>He should hither <b>deduce</b> a colony. <i>Selden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To take away; to deduct; to subtract; <as>as, to <ex>deduce</ex> a part from the whole</as>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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 <it>from</it> or <it>out of</it>.

<blockquote>O goddess, say, shall I <b>deduce</b> my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times? <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>