Middle English Dictionary Entry
dēdūcen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | dēdūcen v. Ppl. i)deduced. |
| Etymology | L dēdūcere |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To show (sth.), prove, demonstrate; argue or infer (sth. from a text); (b) to lead (sth.), bring (into a place); bring (a case before a tribunal); turn (sth. to a use); (c) to deduct (sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)8b/a : Oþer forsoþ bene made for kepyng of alle þise, As þise be deduced [L deducuntur] in þe handez, primo & 2o de utilitate particulari, [etc.].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)147a/b : Alle þise giffeþ knewlich of þe stone, as sheweþ way of curyng, as is deduced [*Ch.(2): as it is ȝeuen; L vt..deducitur] in exemple in primo interiorum.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)171b/b : It is better for to induce somwhat of noying..þan for to late a man dye for aking as it is deduced [*Ch.(2): it is saide] euidently in 12o serapeutica [read: terapeutica].
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.200 : And god is good, as we deduced han [L monstratus est].
- c1475-a1600(a1473) Fortescue Declaration (Clermont)534 : The forsaid texte of Genesis, or eny thinge by me deduced therof, may not prove that a woman may not reigne in a kyngdome.
- c1475(1459) Pros.Yorkists in EHR 26 (Roy 17.D.15)522 : Now I comme to your laste article..and as I conceyve youre pryncipall entent tharin is to deduce for an impossible that youre lordys may not ben overcommen, what for thaire grete pouer and latente supportacion that thay have.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)9b/b : And euery parte [of a blood vessel] is ramified i. braunched, & in ramifying it is deduced [L deducitur; *Ch.(2): þay beþ ladde] to þe extremitez of þe body for to noresh & for to quiken alle þe membrez.
- (a1450) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.1.p.xliv : The which matere was deduced before the said mair and aldremen by cours of lawe.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)181/25 : Hyt sholde be lefful to hem..for to appropur þe fore-seyde londe..also to deduce hyt in-to what-euer vsis þat þey wyllyd.
c
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)489/31 : All the residue of the for-said rent (that mark of siluer first I-deduced or I-take out, to be paid to the Covent at the fest of seynt Margarete the virgyn) shold be paid fully to the Covent.