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1 definition found 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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