Both Uses of
derive
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They are the ground, the books, the academes, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire.†
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- From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish, all the world; Else none at all in aught proves excellent.†
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Definition:
to get something from something else
(If the context doesn't otherwise indicate where something came from, it is generally from reasoning--especially deductive reasoning.)
(If the context doesn't otherwise indicate where something came from, it is generally from reasoning--especially deductive reasoning.)