infer
verb (used with object)
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence.
inferable
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a word derived from
infer.
Example Sentences
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It is inferable, then, that in the near by-and-by the new Church will officially rank the Holy Family in the following order: 1.
From Christian Science by Mark Twain
In the first place, mark what is inferable from the distribution of nebulæ.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
From some passages it is inferable that he considers the "presence of mind" to be everywhere needful.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
So far as the economic interest enters into the constitution of beauty, it enters as a suggestion or expression of adequacy to a purpose, a manifest and readily inferable subservience to the life process.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
The necessities for a nutritive system, a respiratory system, and a vascular system, in all animals of size and vivacity, seem to us legitimately inferable from the conditions to continued vital activity.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
