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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɪˈduːs/, /ə-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪˈdjuːs/, /ə-/
• 韻: -uːs
• ハイフネーション: e‧duce

動詞

educe (third-person singular simple present educes, present participle educing, simple past and past participle educed)

1. (transitive, now rare) To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. [from 16th c.]
3. (transitive) To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. [from 17th c.]
   • 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men‎:

     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.

4. (transitive, chemistry) To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract. [from 17th c.]
5. (transitive) To cause or generate; to bring about. [from 19th c.]

使用する際の注意点

The similar word adduce is sometimes confused with, or misspelled as, educe. For example: "He says he thinks your counsel could have educed [read: adduced‌], on the cross-examination of the Government experts, certain admissions which would go far towards sustaining the theory of the defence."

派生語

名詞

educe

1. An inference.

アナグラム

• deuce