[ad. L. edūcĕre, f. ē out + dūcĕre to lead.]
† 1. pass. To be led forth, branch out (said of a river, a blood-vessel). Obs.
1432–50. trans. Higden (1865), I. 69. The firste floode … the invndacion of whom is educede in to Ynde.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, VII. 93. Where the vessels are inserted and educed.
† 2. Med. To draw forth so as to remove. Obs.
a. 1617. P. Bayne, On Eph. (1658), 140. Medicine will the better work on it [the sicknesse], and educe it, when it is grown to such ripenesse.
1658. J. Robinson, Eudoxa, ix. 50. Warm Water … doth, as an emetick vehicle, often educe superfluous and putrid humours.
3. To bring out, elicit, develop, from a condition of latent, rudimentary, or merely potential existence.
1603. Sir C. Heydon, Jud. Astrol., vii. 187. The Heauens are efficients, which educe the forme out of the matter of the corne.
1612–5. Bp. Hall, Contempl. O. T., XIX. vii. Wks. (1625), 1383. He educeth warmth out of that corps.
a. 1652. J. Smith, Sel. Disc., X. iii. (1856), 475. Hell is not so much induced, as educed out of men’s filthy lusts and passions.
1669. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. III. iii. 42. Chaos was that ancient slime, out of which al things were educed.
1781. Cowper, Hope, 155. [Hope] has the wondrous virtue to educe From emptiness itself a real use.
1816. Coleridge, Lay Serm., 328. Education—consists in educing the faculties and forming the habits.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes (1858), 356. Given a world of Knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action.
1836–7. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph. (1877), I. vi. 105. Anaximenes found the original element in air, from which, by rarefaction and condensation, he educed existences.
b. Chem. To disengage (a substance) from a compound in which it already existed ready formed; contrasted with produce. Cf. EDUCT sb.
1805. Hatchett, in Phil. Trans., XCV. 312, note. Educed by the action of the nitric acid on the original principles of the dragon’s blood.
c. To draw forth, elicit (a principle, the result of a calculation, etc.) from the data.
1836–7. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xxxviii. (1870), II. 353. Notions … which we educe from experience, and build up through generalisation.
1871. Blackie, Four Phases, I. 101. From the careful comparison of facts to educe laws.
1880. Kinglake, Crimea, VI. viii. 181. A statist will quickly educe what he calls the ‘percentages.’
4. To evoke, give rise to (actions, manifestations, etc.).
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, I. Introd. 8. The circumstances which educed his statements of doctrine.
Hence Educement, the action or process of drawing out or developing. Educible a., that can or may be educed. Educing vbl. sb., the action of the verb EDUCE; a bringing out or drawing forth.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., xviii. 113. By Educing, the affirmers only mean a producing.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 157. Faith is natural, i.e. educible out of the potence of corrupt nature.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iii. § 31. 137. All manner of Life … is … educible out of Nothing and reducible to Nothing again.
1842. H. E. Manning, Serm. (1848), I. xvi. 237. The educing of a new creation out of the old.
1868. Contemp. Rev., VIII. 612. The new impulses it ministered to the educement of the individual consciousness.
