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Infer v. t. (past & past part. inferred; pres. part. inferring)

To bring on; to induce; to occasion. (Obs.)

To offer, as violence. (Obs.)

To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. (Obs.) "Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring arguments of mighty force."

To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; as, I inferred his determination from his silence. "To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true." "Such opportunities always infer obligations."

To show; to manifest; to prove. (Obs.) "The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first." "This doth infer the zeal I had to see him."

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"Infer" Quotes from Famous Books

... listened attentively, and was evidently well pleased with what his companion said. I am afraid my young friends are not well up in the Chinese tongue, and would not understand the conversation, however faithfully reported. They must infer what it was ...

— The Young Miner - or Tom Nelson in California • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... G. A. Aitken (see Nineteenth Century, January, 1895), makes it certain, he thinks, that 'the whole narrative is literally true.' He even hopes that the receipt for scouring Mrs. Veal's gown may some day be found. Mr. Aitken seems to infer that Defoe's other tales will also turn out to be true histories, but Defoe avers, with all the seriousness he expends on Mrs. Veal, that he witnessed the great Plague of London, which it is needless ...

— The Age of Pope - (1700-1744) • John Dennis

... that doctrine would appear, I long hesitated whether I should publish my book, or whether it were not better to follow the example of the Pythagoreans and others, who delivered their doctrines only by tradition and to friends." From this passage we should infer that he apprehended controversy rather than persecution, that for the former he had no desire, that he was without ambition, and felt no wish to found a new school, but would rather leave truths he had learned quietly to make their way through ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 • Various

... our aid a much earlier witness. The annalists inform us that in the year 1111 there was an assembly at Usnagh in Meath. It decreed that "the parishes[33] of Meath" should be equally divided between the bishops of Clonmacnoise and Clonard. We may infer that Clonmacnoise and Clonard, two of the present rural deaneries, were then dioceses. It is not likely that the dioceses of Meath would have been formed into two groups, each to constitute the diocese of a bishop who had already no diocese of his own. But however ...

— St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh • H. J. Lawlor

... infer from this that a large audience is always necessary to success. Indeed the most successful and satisfactory address I ever made was to an audience of one. If I can make as favorable an impression upon you as I did upon that young ...

— Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures • George W. Bain

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