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verb

Infer v. t. (past & past part. inferred; pres. part. inferring)

To bring on; to induce; to occasion. (Obs.)

To offer, as violence. (Obs.)

To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. (Obs.) "Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force."

To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; as, I inferred his determination from his silence. "To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true." "Such opportunities always infer obligations."

To show; to manifest; to prove. (Obs.) "The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first." "This doth infer the zeal I had to see him."

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... experiment, than we do here. We learn only that she has chosen for it a remote spot in the western part of Tennessee, and has commenced her enterprise; but with what prospects we know not. Her plan contemplated a provision for the expatriation of her Eleves, but without specifying it; from which I infer the difficulty felt in devising a satisfactory one. Could this part of the plan be ensured, the other essential part would come about of itself. Manumissions now more than keep pace with the outlets provided, and the increase of them is checked ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various

... embodied in that of some of its most confident and popular representatives, has been distinctly and openly unfavourable to belief in a future life. If man was truly descended from the lower creation, it seemed obvious to infer that as had been his origin, so also would be his destiny—the destiny of the beasts that perish. The Kraft und Stoff school of physicists proclaimed aloud that consciousness was only a function of the brain, and would ...

— Problems of Immanence - Studies Critical and Constructive • J. Warschauer

... this subject; that the prayer of these petitioners should be granted and the whole right established; but now it seems that he wishes to create a perpetual committee, so that it is to go on interminably, from which I infer that he intends that never shall these prayers be granted. I suggest to the senator from Indiana that, if he be in earnest, if he wishes to crown with success this great and beneficent movement, he should raise a special committee, which committee would understand that it was to ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... of the name Jeuse. It is spelled without the accent mark, and the reader is led to infer that it is pronounced as though it were a French name. Here the eu is a diphthong. The first vowel is the French e, the second the Italian u. The stress ...

— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer

... us to understand what that means. One would infer that the weregild was only paid by a man with relatives on his father's side. It doesn't say that, but that is the inference. We shall have plenty to say about the guilds later—the historical predecessors of the modern trades-unions. ...

— Popular Law-making • Frederic Jesup Stimson

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