educe
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of educe
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (archaic, transitive)To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
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verb
- (archaic, transitive)To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction.
- (transitive)To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises.
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(transitive)To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop.
“The justice of God may be vindicated by a belief in a future state; but, only by believing that evil is educing good for the individual, and not for an imaginary whole.”
- (transitive)To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract.
- (transitive)To cause or generate; to bring about.
noun
- An inference.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēdūcere (“lead out, raise up”); from ex- (“out, up”) + dūcō (“lead, pull”).
Words you can make from educe
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5 extensions · 3 front · 2 back
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