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Infer [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Literally, to bring on; to induce. [Little used.]

2. To deduce; to draw or derive, as a fact or consequence. From the character of God, as creator and governor of the world, we infer the indispensable obligation of all his creatures to obey his commands. We infer one proposition or truth from another, when we perceive that if one is true, the other must be true also.

3. To offer; to produce. [Not used.]

Infer [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

2. To offer, as violence.

3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.

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.

5. To show; to manifest; to prove.

Inferable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That may be inferred or deduced from premises.

Inferable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises.

Inference [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion. Inferences result from reasoning, as when the mind perceives such a connection between ideas, as that, if certain propositions called premises are true, the conclusions or propositions deduced from them must also be true.

Inference [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

2. That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

Inferential [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Deduced or deducible by inference.

Inferentially [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

By way of inference.

Inferiae [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.

Inferior [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Lower in place.

2. Lower in station, age, or rank in life. Pay due respect to those who are superior in station, and due civility to those who are inferior

3. Lower in excellence or value; as a poem of inferior merit; cloth of inferior quality or price.

4. Subordinate; of less importance. Attend to health and safety; ease and convenience are inferior considerations.

Inferior [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A person who is younger, or of a lower station or rank in society.

2. A person gets more by obliging his inferior than by disdaining him.

Inferior [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

2. Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.

3. Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.

4. Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.

5. Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx.

6. On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.

7. Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.

Inferior [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.

Inferiority [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A lower state of dignity, age, value or quality. We speak of the inferiority of rank, of office, of talents, of age, of worth.

Inferiority Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.

Inferiorly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.

Infernal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Properly, pertaining to the lower regions, or regions of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. Hence,

2. Pertaining to hell; inhabiting hell; as infernal spirits.

3. Hellish; resembling the temper of infernal spirits; malicious; diabolical; very wicked and detestable.

Infernal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. An inhabitant of hell, or of the lower regions.

2. Infernal stone [Lapis infernalis.] a name formerly given to lunar caustic, a substance prepared from an evaporated solution of silver, or from crystals of silver.

3. Lunar caustic is nitrate of silver fused and cast in small cylinders.

Infernal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.

2. Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.

Infernal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.

Infernally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an infernal manner; diabolically.

Inferobranchian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the Inferobranchiata.

Inferobranchiata [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.

Inferobranchiate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.

Inferred [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Inferrible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Inferable.

Inferring [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Infertile [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Not fertile; not fruitful or productive; barren; as an infertile soil.

Infertile [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.

Infertilely [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an infertile manner.

Infertility [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Unfruitfulness; unproductiveness; barrenness; as the infertility of land.

Infertility [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness.

Reasoning, Roget’s Thesaurus §476

N. {ant. 477} reasoning, ratiocination, rationalism, dialectics, induction, generalization, discussion, comment, ventilation, inquiry, argumentation, controversy, debate, polemics, wrangling, contention logomachy, disputation, disceptation, paper war, art of reasoning, logic, process of reasoning, train of reasoning, chain of reasoning, deduction, induction, abduction, synthesis, analysis, argument, case, plaidoyer, opening, lemma, proposition, terms, premises, postulate, data, starting point, principle, inference, prosyllogism, syllogism, enthymeme, sorites, dilemma, perilepsis, a priori reasoning, reductio ad absurdum, horns of a dilemma, argumentum ad hominem, comprehensive argument, empirema, epagoge, reasoner, logician, dialectician, disputant, controversialist, controvertist, wrangler, arguer, debater polemic, casuist, rationalist, scientist, eristic, logical sequence, good case, correct just reasoning, sound reasoning, valid reasoning, cogent reasoning, logical reasoning, forcible reasoning, persuasive reasoning, persuasory reasoning, consectary reasoning|, conclusive, subtle reasoning, force of argument, strong point, strong argument, persuasive argument, arguments, reasons, pros and cons

V. reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle- argufy, bandy words, bandy arguments, chop logic, hold an argument, carry on an argument, controvert, canvass, comment upon, moralize upon, spiritualize, consider, open a discussion, open a case, try conclusions, join issue, be at issue, moot, come to the point, stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question, take up a side, take up a case, contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on, infer, follow from

Adj. reasoning, rationalistic, argumentative, controversial, dialectic, polemical, discursory, discursive, disputatious, aristotelian, eristic, eristical, debatable, controvertible, logical, relevant

Adv. for, because, hence, whence, seeing that, since, sith, then thence so, for that reason, for this reason, for which reason, for as, inasmuch as, whereas, ex concesso, considering, in consideration of, therefore, wherefore, consequently, ergo, thus, accordingly, a fortiori, in conclusion, in fine, finally, after all, au bout du compt, on the whole, taking one thing with another

Phr. ab actu ad posse valet consecutio, per troppo dibatter la verita si perde, troppo disputare la verita fa errare

Latency. Implication Roget’s Thesaurus §526

N. {ant. 525} latency, inexpression, hidden meaning, occult meaning, occultness, mystery, cabala, anagoge, silence, concealment, more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear, delphic oracle, le dessous des cartes, undercurrent, implication, logical implication, logical consequence, entailment, allusion, insinuation, innuendo, adumbration, "something rotten in the state of denmark", snake in the grass, secret, darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility

V. be latent, lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign, escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition, lie hid, laugh in one's sleeve, keep back, involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference, entail, whisper, read between the lines

Adj. latent, lurking, secret, occult, implied, dormant, abeyant, unapparent, unknown, unseen, in the background, invisible, indiscoverable, dark, impenetrable, unspied, unsuspected, unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed, unexpressed, not expressed, tacit, undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered, untracked, unexplored, uninvented, indirect, crooked, inferential, by inference, by implication, implicit, constructive, allusive, covert, muffled, steganographic, understood, underhand, underground, delitescent, concealed

Adv. by a side wind, sub silentio, in the background, behind the scenes, behind one's back, on the tip of one's tongue, secretly, between the lines

Phr. "thereby hangs a tale", tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus, where there's smoke, there's fire