educe
(ɪˈdjuːs)
[ad. L. edūcĕre, f. ē out + dūcĕre to lead.]
† 1. pass. To be led forth, branch out (said of a river, a blood-vessel). Obs.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (1865) I. 69 The firste floode..the invndacion of whom is educede in to Ynde. 1578 Banister Hist. Man vii. 93 Where the vessels are inserted and educed. |
† 2. Med. To draw forth so as to remove. Obs.
| a 1617 Bayne On Eph. (1658) 140 Medicine will..work on the sicknesse, and educe it. 1658 J. Robinson Eudoxa ix. 50 Warm Water..doth, as an emetick vehicle, often educe superfluous and putrid humours. |
3. To bring out, elicit, develop, from a condition of latent, rudimentary, or merely potential existence.
| 1603 Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. vii. 187 The Heauens are efficients, which educe the forme out of the matter of the corne. 1612–5 Bp. Hall Contempl. xix. vii, He educeth warmth out of that corps. a 1652 J. Smith Sel. Disc. x. iii. (1856) 475 Hell is not so much induced, as educed out of men's filthy lusts and passions. 1669 Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 42 Chaos was that ancient slime, out of which al things were educed. 1781 Cowper Hope 155 [Hope] has the wondrous virtue to educe From emptiness itself a real use. 1816 Coleridge Lay Serm. 328 Education—consists in educing the faculties and forming the habits. 1840 Carlyle Heroes (1858) 356 Given a world of Knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action. 1836–7 Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. (1877) I. vi. 105 Anaximenes found the original Element in air, from which, by rarefaction and condensation he educed existences. |
b. Chem. To disengage (a substance) from a compound in which it already existed ready formed; contrasted with produce. Cf. educt n.
| 1805 Hatchett in Phil. Trans. XCV. 312 note, Educed by the action of the nitric acid on the original principles of the dragon's blood. |
c. To draw forth, elicit (a principle, the result of a calculation, etc.) from the data.
| 1836–7 Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxviii. (1870) II. 353 Notions..which we educe from experience, and build up through generalisation. 1871 Blackie Four Phases i. 101 From the careful comparison of facts to educe laws. 1880 Kinglake Crimea VI. viii. 181 A Statist will quickly educe what he calls the ‘percentages’. |
4. To evoke, give rise to (actions, manifestations, etc.).
| 1879 Farrar St. Paul I. Introd. 8 The circumstances which educed his statements of doctrine. |
Hence eˈducement, the action or process of drawing out or developing. eˈducible a., that can or may be educed. eˈducing vbl. n., the action of the verb educe; a bringing out or drawing forth.
| 1665 Glanvill Sceps. Sci. xviii, By educing, the affirmers only mean a producing. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 157 Faith is natural, i.e. educible out of the potence of corrupt nature. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. §31. 137 All manner of life..is..educible out of nothing and reducible to nothing again. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. (1848) I. xvi. 237 The educing of a new creation out of the old. 1868 Contemp. Rev. VIII. 612 The new impulses it ministered to the educement of the individual consciousness. |