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adjective
Deducible  adj.  
1.
Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by reasoning, as a result or consequence. "All properties of a triangle depend on, and are deducible from, the complex idea of three lines including a space."
2.
Capable of being brought down. (Obs.) "As if God (were) deducible to human imbecility."





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"Deducible" Quotes from Famous Books



... "originality" one does not mean that Tennyson discovered the existence of the ultimate problems. But at Cambridge (1828-1830) he had voted "No" in answer to the question discussed by "the Apostles," "Is an intelligible [intelligent?] First Cause deducible from the phenomena of the universe?" {9} He had also propounded the theory that "the development of the human body might possibly be traced from the radiated vermicular molluscous and vertebrate organisms," thirty years before Darwin ...
— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang
... and your house? Cannot you compare this with the time and money you spend for intellectual and benevolent purposes? and will not this show the need of some change? In making this examination, is not this brief rule, deducible from the principles before laid down, the one which should regulate you? Every person does right, in spending some portion of time and means in securing the conveniences and adornments of taste; but the amount ...
— A Treatise on Domestic Economy - For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School • Catherine Esther Beecher
... performs a selection 'sua sponte'. It is the claim of Mr. Darwin that he professes to have discovered the existence and the 'modus operandi' of this natural selection, as he terms it; and, if he be right, the process is perfectly simple and comprehensible, and irresistibly deducible from very familiar ...
— The Darwinian Hypothesis • Thomas H. Huxley
... believe to be deducible from the first scene can be profitably employed only in conjunction with those to be discovered in the third. Our analysis must, therefore, be entered upon by an attempt to ascertain the true character of the impressions which it was the desire of Shakspere to convey ...
— The Germ - Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art • Various


Words linked to "Deducible" :   deductive, deduce


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