adduce
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English adducen, from Latin addūcere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + dūcere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈd(j)uːs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈdjuːs/, /əˈdʒuːs/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːs
Verb edit
adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)
- (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.
- 1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840
- Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
- 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Introduction”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 2:
- For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]
- 1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: London Railways. By Edwin Course. Batsford. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page:
- But he adduces many recent facts, such as the overhead wiring in 1959 for electric working of the ex-S.E.R. Angerstein's Wharf branch.
- 2022, China Miéville, chapter 5, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
- Both the rise and fall of the Stalinist regimes can be adduced against the Manifesto: the former, because what came into being was so inimical to human liberation, the latter because whether one supported or opposed it, it failed.
- (transitive, Scots law) To produce in proof.
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to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration
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References edit
- “adduce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “adduce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “adduce”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “adduce, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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adduce
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addūce
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducin, simple past adduced, past participle adduced)
- to adduce (bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case)
- (transitive, Scots law) to adduce (produce in proof)
References edit
- “adduce, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.