Word of the Day: Educe

Educe (verb)
To draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; To infer or deduce.

Origin

Related to educate, educe is derived from the Latin roots ex-, meaning “out”, and ducere meaning “to lead.”

Quotes

If, after this, you can possibly want any further aid towards knowing what Sir Lionel was, we can tell you, that in his soul “the scientific combinations of thought could educe no fuller harmonies of the good and the true, than lay in the primaeval pulses which floated as an atmosphere around it!”…
— George Eliot, Middlemarch



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