educe
verb (used with object)
to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
educed
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past participleof educe.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof educe.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
educeverb (used with object)to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
Example Sentences
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In 2013, the Serbian player Viktor Troicki was given an 18-month ban, which was later educed to 12 months, for declining a blood test at a tournament.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2018
He educed a knowing chuckle from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib.
From Time Magazine Archive
I recalled what I could of how I had been educed, at age twelve.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Something good in the way of inculcation may be educed from this rather biting sonnet.
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
Social life and social relations are the life school in which this “good”-ness can be educed, strengthened, matured, in the individual.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
