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   Infer (?), 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.]
   
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   1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.]  Harvey.
   
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   2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.]  Spenser.
   
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   3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer. [Obs.]
   
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   Full well hath Clifford played the orator,
   
   Inferring arguments of mighty force. Shak.
   
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   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; as, “I inferred his determination from his silence”.
   
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   To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true. Locke.
   
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   Such opportunities always infer obligations. Atterbury.
   
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   5. To show; to manifest; to prove. [Obs.]
   
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   The first part is not the proof of the second, but rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the first. Sir T. More.
   
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   This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. Shak.
   
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