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    I dispute, in particular, the reason educed by mathematical study.  (source)
    educed = developed
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    By bringing jealousy into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had educed the justice of revenge.†  (source)
    educed = developed or evolved from a latent or potential state  OR  (more rarely) determined by reasoning
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    He liked to educe comment from the untalkative man, draw him forth, make him understand that his wish to be friendless was not readily respected here.†  (source)
    educe = develop or evolve from a latent or potential state  OR  (more rarely) determine by reasoning
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    No, you are not a leader, but you are still an 'educable child.'†  (source)
    educable = capable of being educated  OR  capable of developing or being figured out
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in educable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "E", the "E" is often dropped as in lovable and believable.
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    The parties concerned, uniting, had increased and multiplied, which being done, offspring produced and educed to maturity, the parties, if not disunited were obliged to reunite for increase and multiplication, which was absurd, to form by reunion the original couple of uniting parties, which was impossible.†  (source)
    educed = developed or evolved from a latent or potential state  OR  (more rarely) determined by reasoning
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    From the paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch, into vaguenesses at which I shuddered the more thrillingly, because I shuddered knowing not why;—from these paintings (vivid as their images now are before me) I would in vain endeavor to educe more than a small portion which should lie within the compass of merely written words.†  (source)
    educe = develop or evolve from a latent or potential state  OR  (more rarely) determine by reasoning
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    The eternal art, educing good from ill, Grafts on this passion our best principle: 'Tis thus the mercury of man is fixed, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mixed; The dross cements what else were too refined, And in one interest body acts with mind.†  (source)
    educing = developing or evolving from a latent or potential state  OR  (more rarely) determining by reasoning
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    It is firmly believed by whites (and many middle-class blacks) that street talk or ghetto language is merely bad or lazy English, or that Americans who grow up speaking it are stupid or uneducable.†  (source)
    uneducable = not capable of being educated  OR  not capable of developing or being figured out
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uneducable means not and reverses the meaning of educable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And so let us bless the fates that have thrown you upon these dreadful shores, giving me the opportunity to influence your educable youth with my not unskilled, not yet totally enfeebled words, and to make you aware of the responsibility that you and your country bear, while the civilized world looks on.†  (source)
    educable = capable of being educated  OR  capable of developing or being figured out
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    "Induced, you should say, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "not educed."†  (source)
    educed = developed or evolved from a latent or potential state  OR  (more rarely) determined by reasoning
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    From the paintings over which his elaborate fancy brooded, and which grew, touch by touch, into vaguenesses at which I shuddered the more thrillingly, because I shuddered knowing not why;—from these paintings (vivid as their images now are before me) I would in vain endeavor to educe more than a small portion which should lie within the compass of merely written words.†  (source)
    educe = develop or evolve from a latent or potential state  OR  (more rarely) determine by reasoning
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    It had occurred to him that he must not any longer defer his intention of matrimony, and he had reflected that in taking a wife, a man of good position should expect and carefully choose a blooming young lady—the younger the better, because more educable and submissive—of a rank equal to his own, of religious principles, virtuous disposition, and good understanding.†  (source)
    educable = capable of being educated  OR  capable of developing or being figured out
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    Sancho said to his master, "Señor, I have educed my wife to let me go with your worship wherever you choose to take me."†  (source)
    educed = developed or evolved from a latent or potential state  OR  (more rarely) determined by reasoning
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