
Noah Webster
Deduce
DEDUCE, verb transitive [Latin To lead, bring or draw.]
1. To draw from; to bring from.
O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes
From the dire nation in its early times?
2. To draw from, in reasoning; to gather a truth, opinion or proposition from premises; to infer something from what precedes.
Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.
3. To deduct.
4. To transplant.