transitive. Chiefly with from (also †of, †at): to obtain or derive (a material or immaterial thing) deliberately from a particular source; to copy…

transitive. With †of, from: to take or obtain (something) from a particular source, esp. a source of information; to derive.

transitive. To get, derive, or obtain from.

To derive or extract (information, comfort, profit, etc.) from, †of, or out of. (Cf. sense 2.)

To extract (information or profit). Obsolete.

To draw, fetch, get, gain, obtain (a thing from a source). Const. from, rarely †out of.

figurative; esp. to obtain (comfort, pleasure, happiness) from a specified source; also, to draw out (the sense of anything); to deduce (a…

transitive. To obtain (ideas, conclusions, etc.) from a source; to adopt, borrow; to deduce, infer. Also intransitive. Cf. sense 17b. Obsolete.