educe
verb (used with object)
to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent; elicit; develop.
educing
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present participleof educe.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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As a straight actor, he has the uncanny knack of educing raw emotions from himself and his audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
How else could He have wrought the miracle of educing good from evil?
From Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker by M. (Meletios) Golden
There are more than ten padres engaged in the establishment, and as many sisters, and all find plenty of occupation in educing from native crania the fire of intelligence.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
He, too, believed in man's natural goodness, and held that true education is not so much the infusion of what is foreign to, as the educing of what is native in the child.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
To this it may be answered, that air and light are probably amongst the principal agencies of this kind which operated in educing the various forms of being.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
