Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Deduce

Deduce , transitive verb

[Latin deducere; de- + ducere to lead, draw. See Duke, and compare Deduct.]

1.
To lead forth. [A Latinism]
He should hither deduce a colony. — Selden
2.
To take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson
3.
To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of.
O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes From the dire nation in its early times? — Pope
Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known. — Locke
See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors. — Sir W. Scott