单词 | educe |
释义 | educev. 1. transitive. To direct the flow or course of; to lead or conduct in a particular direction; (formerly also) †to bring out (obsolete). Now rare (chiefly figurative after 18th cent.). Frequently in passive. ΚΠ ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 69 (MED) The firste floode..the invndacion of whom is educede [L. educitur] in to Ynde. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man vii. f. 93 Where the vessels are inserted & educed, is smooth. 1652 W. Charleton Darknes Atheism ii. 64 Should we take a man, who had been born and bred up to maturity of years in some obscure cavern of the earth,..on a suddain educe him from his dungeon, [etc.]. 1864 E. Burritt Walk to John O'Groats xiv. 281 Thought educed into one direction and activity, runs naturally into others. 2000 L. D. Walls in W. E. Cain Hist. Guide H. D. Thoreau 137 To..set pen to paper..is to interrupt the stream of experience, muddy its clear flow, in order to ‘cut, separate, sift’ it—educe it—into that second flow of language. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > disperse, etc., humours or morbid matter cleansec1000 resolvea1398 slaya1400 dissolvec1400 evacuec1400 mundify?a1425 repel?a1425 attenuate1533 evacuate1533 discuss?1537 divert?1541 extenuate1541 intercide?1541 educe1574 scour1577 attray1579 clenge1582 divertise1597 derive1598 revel1598 display1607 draw1608 incide1612 correct1620 fuse1705 lavage1961 1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes sig. S.ij But if their be such abundance of ill humoures, that diette or abstinence is not hable to purge them, then must those humours be educed and drawen foorth by easie and light purgacion. a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 140 Medicine will..work on the sicknesse, and educe it. 1658 J. Robinson Endoxa ix. 50 Warm Water..doth, as an emetick vehicle, often educe superfluous and putrid humours. 1714 J. Browne Inst. Physick 321 Hence the first Distinction of Evacuations, is taken from the diversity of the Emunctory, by which they educe the morbid Matter. 3. a. transitive. To draw out or infer (a principle, result, etc.) from premises or available data; to deduce. Frequently with from. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > process of inferring, inference > infer, conclude [verb (transitive)] > based on hypothesis or data educe1794 expound1821 generalizea1828 to put two and two together1849 extrapolate1905 retrodict1940 postdict1952 1581 R. Parsons Brief Censure sig. Bviij They geue examples of manie thinges, which bothe we and our aduersaries also doe beleue, which neuerthelese, are not set downe expreslye in the Scripturs, although perhaps educed therof. 1633 R. Capel Tentations iv. 147 The thing I educe is this, that it is impossible with all our whining to get off the sin merited, except we first deale with the sin meriting. 1653 Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick vi. 14 It may be educed from what hath been sayd of an Eighth, from which if a Ditone be cut off, the remainder will be a Sixth Minor. 1710 W. Hume Sacred Succession vi. 226 By parity of Reason, a Hundred like Cases may be educed. 1794 Eng. Rev. Oct. 248 Sir Isaac Newton, in one of his rural retreats, perceiving ripe fruit to fall from the trees,..educed from that ordinary phenomenon the laws of gravitation. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxviii. 353 Notions..which we educe from experience, and build up through generalisation. 1880 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 4) VI. viii. 181 A Statist will quickly educe what he calls the ‘percentages’. 1927 S. K. Belvalkar & R. D. Ranade Hist. Indian Philos. II. §21. 264 If we have to educe any consistent doctrine.., it would be probably that the author of the Kathopanishad understood by Jñānātman the intellective Soul. 1959 J. Barzun House of Intellect v. 131 In most subjects, few attempts are made to educe principles from ever larger masses of facts. 1996 J. Chadwick Lexicographic Graeca 14 The structure of meanings must be educed by the lexicographer from the material at his disposal. b. transitive. To bring out, elicit, or develop from a state of latent, rudimentary, or potential existence. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > furtherance > further [verb (transitive)] > by bringing out what is potential educt1568 educe1603 develop1714 to work out1821 1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. vii. 187 The Heauens are efficients, which educe the forme out of the matter of the corne. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) x. iii. 467 Hell is not so much induced, as educed out of mens filthy Lusts and Passions. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. iii. 42 Chaos was that ancient slime, out of which al things were educed. 1746 Museum 25 Oct. 91 The superintending Goodness of Providence, which constantly does the best for Mankind, educing Good and Happiness even out of Evil and Calamities. 1799 tr. J. F. G. de la Perouse Voy. Round World (ed. 2) I. xxi. 85 I neither saw these islanders dance, nor heard them sing; but they can all educe pleasing sounds from a large stalk of celery. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 50 Education, which consists in educing the faculties, and forming the habits. 1878 Lancet 28 Dec. 920/1 The ‘lymphoid cells’..were leucocytes, which the presence of any foreign matter in the tissues, as cancer, tends to educe. 1916 Eccl. Rev. 54 93 By rubbing two sticks together you produce fire, which is properly said to be elicited or educed from the potency of the wood... Can life be educed from the potency of matter? 1969 S. A. Hetzler Technol. Growth & Social Change ii. 17 The many channels for upward mobility that it [sc. technology] forces open in order to educe this talent. 2002 J. F. Wippel in B. Davies T. Aquinas vii. 187 An agent is required..to reduce copper from being a statue only potentially to being such in actuality by educing the form of that statue. c. transitive. Chemistry. To isolate (a substance) from a compound or mixture in which it is present; to extract. Cf. educt n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to miscellaneous other processes reduce?a1425 weaken1540 projecta1550 brown1570 spiritualize1593 colliquate1603 redisperse1621 imbibe1626 educe1651 to cant off1658 part1663 regalize1664 dint1669 roche1679 subtilizea1722 neutralize1744 develop1756 evolve1772 extricate1790 separate1805 unburn1815 leach1860 methylate1864 nitrate1872 nitre1880 sweeten1885 deflocculate1909 hybridize1959 1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces iv. 249 Dost thou ask how gold and silver can be educed from copper, iron, tin, and lead, to wit, by the help of lotion? 1671 H. Stubbe Epistolary Disc. Phlebotomy 17 As great a Pyrotechnist as he would seem, 'tis past his Art to demonstrate, that it is a Spirit, or Chimically to educe a Spiritus rubens out of it. 1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 516 Yet this portion does not extricate or educe any Air from Nitre nor consequently contribute to its decomposition. 1805 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 313 This not being the case, I am inclined to consider it as produced, and not educed, by the action of the nitric acid on the original principles of the dragon's blood. 1853 T. Griffiths Chem. Four Seasons (rev. ed.) iii. 253 For all practical purposes, the acid is educed by the distillation of sulphuric acid with nitrate of potassa. 1887 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 30 July 526 If metallic arsenic..can be educed from 100 square centimetres..of stuffs, woven fabrics, and lamp-shades. 1977 Weed Sci. 25 177/1 Data on the quantity of herbicide educed per g of tablet..indicate little difference in eduction rate due to tablet size. 2007 M. Potapenko et al. in M. R. Shurin & Y. S. Smolkin Immune-mediated Dis. xx. 195 Klenk educed neuraminic acid from ganglioside. 4. transitive. To bring about, occasion, give rise to (an act, event, emotion, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > elicit or call forth movea1398 drawa1400 provoke?a1425 askc1450 to draw out1525 to stir up1526 allure?1532 suscitate1532 to call out1539 to draw fortha1569 draw1581 attract1593 raise1598 force1602 fetch1622 milka1628 invite1650 summon1679 elicit1822 to work up?1833 educe1840 1840 Niles' National Reg. 18 July 317/2 Mr Stanly made inquiries of the chairman which educed explanations on his part. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. Pref. p. viii The circumstances which educed his statements of doctrine. 1905 Public Opinion 15 July 71/2 One is tempted to pay tribute to her ‘impersonal splendour’.., before exploiting the individual experiences which educed ‘The Art of Right Thinking’. 1977 Encounter Oct. 42/2 This is that writing, educed at Encounter's invitation. 2005 S. R. Lindsay Handbk. Appl. Dog Behavior & Training I. iii. 146/2 The consummation of play appears to educe joy and instant gratification. Derivatives eˈducement n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > causing purchase1490 occasionc1515 occasioning1547 educing1592 inducing1626 causation1646 causing1651 induction1660 evocation1775 eductiona1806 educement1839 superinduction1842 1839 Monthly Rev. Jan. 21 Mr. K...gives us a connected and engaging narrative..and the educement of truths regarding the human mind. 1868 Contemp. Rev. 8 612 The new impulses it ministered to the educement of the individual consciousness. 2004 BusinessWorld (Philippines) (Nexis) 6 July 21 The rest was educement of the implicit positions to outside of the rite itself. eˈducing n. the action of educing something (in various senses); a bringing out or drawing forth. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > causing purchase1490 occasionc1515 occasioning1547 educing1592 inducing1626 causation1646 causing1651 induction1660 evocation1775 eductiona1806 educement1839 superinduction1842 1592 N. Gyer Eng. Phlebotomy iii. 26 Phlebotomie which is one of the greatest remedies, the Phisition vseth, is for good cause defined an artificiall kind of educing. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xvi. 155 By educing the affirmers only mean a producing. 1784 European Mag. & London Rev. July 18/1 Even admitting the extension of commerce to its present stupendous height to be an evil, it were much wiser to employ their talents in the educing what good they can out of it. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xvi. 237 The educing of a new creation out of the old. 1990 F. Daftary Isma'ilis: Hist. & Doctr. (1999) 566 Ta'wīl: the educing of the inner meaning from the literal wording or apparent meaning of a text or ritual. 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