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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Infer \In*fer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inferred}; p. pr & vb n.
{Inferring}.] [L. inferre to bring into bring forward,
occasion, infer; pref. in- in + ferre to carry, bring: cf F.
inf['e]rer. See 1 st {Bear}.]
1. To bring on to induce; to occasion. [Obs.] --Harvey.
2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.] --Spenser.
3. 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. --Shak.
4. 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; to imply; 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.
--Locke.
Such opportunities always infer obligations.
--Atterbury.
5. 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 --Sir T. More
This doth infer the zeal I had to see him --Shak.
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