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. inférer.
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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