Part 2838

<blockquote>Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of <b>deducing</b> unknown truths from principles already known. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which <b>deduces</b> your descent from kings and conquerors. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Deducement</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*duce"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Inference; deduction; thing deduced.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Deducibility</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*du`ci*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Deducibleness.</def>

<h1>Deducible</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*du"ci*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by reasoning, as a result or consequence.</def>

<blockquote>All properties of a triangle depend on, and are <b>deducible</b> from, the complex idea of three lines including a space. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Capable of being brought down.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>As if God <b>deducible</b> to human imbecility. <i>State Trials (1649).</i></blockquote>

<h1>Deducibleness</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*du"ci*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being deducible; deducibility.</def>

<h1>Deducibly</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*du"ci*bly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>By deduction.</def>

<h1>Deducive</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*du"cive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That deduces; inferential.</def>

<h1>Deduct</h1> <Xpage=379>

<hw>De*duct"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Deducted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Deducting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>deductus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>deducere</ets> to deduct. See <er>Deduce</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To lead forth or out.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A people <b>deducted</b> out of the city of Philippos. <i>Udall.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with <i>from</i> or <i>out of</i>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Deduct</b> what is but vanity, or dress. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Two and a half per cent should be <b>deducted</b> out of the pay of the foreign troops. <i>Bp. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We <b>deduct</b> from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy.

<i>Norris</i>.