Word Meanings - EDUCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter. The eternal art educing good from ill. Pope. They want to educe and cultivate what is best and noblest

Additional info about word: EDUCE

To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter. The eternal art educing good from ill. Pope. They want to educe and cultivate what is best and noblest in themselves. M. Arnold.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EDUCE)

• Attenuate
• Educe
• elongate
• reduce
• fine-drawn
• narrow
• contract
• diminish
• compress
• Create
• Form
• produce
• make
• compose
• constitute
• beget
• engender
• generate
• fashion
• originate
• educe
• invent
• imagine
• cause
• Develop
• enucleate
• eliminate
• enunciate
• lay open
• disclose
• unravel
• unfold
• clear
• amplify
• expand
• enlarge
• Elicit
• Draw
• evoke
• express
• extract
• worm
• evolve
• Evoke
• Excite
• provoke
• elicit
• summon
• call out

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EDUCE)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon

Related words: (words related to EDUCE)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• EVOLVENT
  The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• PROCREATE
  To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• RE-CREATE
  To create or form anew. On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reënforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army. Marshall.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.