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eductive

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[ih-duhk-tiv] / ɪˈdʌk tɪv /

adjective

  1. educing; serving to educe.


Etymology

Origin of eductive

1650–60; < Latin ēduct ( us ) ( educt ) + -ive

Example Sentences

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Mr. Sands has gone to the base of human teaching, discarding pretentious themes, in order to illustrate the simpler beauty of that eductive and inductive co-relationship which, beginning at the mother’s breast, proceeds through all the quiet processes of mental development in infancy, childhood, and maturity.—N.

From Project Gutenberg

There is but one word for a work so penetrating, so eductive, so clear—and that word is masterly.

From Project Gutenberg