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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

... having given the subject every possible attention, came to the conclusion, that they were obliged to look at the record, to see whether the case stated on the record was one which necessarily connected the act done with some public mischief, we must necessarily infer from this, that the Court would have been of opinion, that unless that necessary connexion was established by the statement on the record, the judgment ought to be different. If I am not correct in this position, the Court had no occasion to look to the verdict and see whether ...

— The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, • William Brodie Gurney

... first to Spring Street. She was led to infer, from the advertisement, that she might find cheap accommodations. But when she found herself in front of the house designated, she found it so dirty and neglected in appearance that she did not feel like entering. She was sure it would not ...

— Rufus and Rose - The Fortunes of Rough and Ready • Horatio Alger, Jr

... a brother's death! One generation is not sufficient to remove these feelings; the barrenness of his marriage bed, or the weakly state of his children, are successively speculated upon by the presumptive heir. Let it not be supposed that I would infer this always to be the fact. I have put the extreme case, to point out what must ensue, according to the feelings of our nature, if care is not taken to prevent its occurrence. There is a cruelty, a more than cruelty, in parents bringing up their children ...

— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... doubtless also many of the experiments you yourself may originate, are merely reproductive. Pleasurable or horrific as these may be, they are far less important than the images evoked by the productive imagination—though that does not infer ...

— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

... the monarch's love and jealousy are described with a fulness entirely lacking in the tournament scene quoted above, and we may fairly infer that both writer and reader were more deeply interested in affairs of the heart than in feats of arms, however glorious. The emphasis given to love rather than to war in this tale is significant as a contrast to the opposite tendency in such romances of a century later as "Ivanhoe," in which a ...

— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher

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