Thesaurus: infer

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1. v. t. To bring on; to induce; to occasion.
2. v. t. To offer, as violence.
3. v. t. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.
4. v. t. 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; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.
5. v. t. To show; to manifest; to prove.
6. v. reason by deduction; establish by deduction
7. v. draw from specific cases for more general cases
8. v. conclude by reasoning; in logic
9. v. guess correctly; solve by guessing
10. v. believe to be the case
11. 1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.] Harvey. 2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.] Spenser. 3. 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. Shak. 4. 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; to imply; 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. Locke. Such opportunities always infer obligations. Atterbury. 5. 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. Sir T. More. This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. Shak.
12. v:100 v reason by deduction; establish by deduction v draw from specific cases for more general cases v conclude by reasoning; in logic v guess correctly; solve by guessing v believe to be the case