adduce

Borrowed from Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + ducere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈd(j)uːs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈdjuːs/, /əˈdʒuːs/
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• Rhymes: -uːs

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)

1. (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.

   • 1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840

     Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.

   • 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], OCLC 1029641431:

     For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]

   • 1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: London Railways. By Edwin Course. Batsford. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, page unnumbered:

     But he adduces many recent facts, such as the overhead wiring in 1959 for electric working of the ex-S.E.R. Angerstein's Wharf branch.

   • 2022, China Miéville, chapter 5, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, OCLC 1331706453:

     Both the rise and fall of the Stalinist regimes can be adduced against the Manifesto: the former, because what came into being was so inimical to human liberation, the latter because whether one supported or opposed it, it failed.

• adduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “adduce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “adduce”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “adduce, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

adduce

1. third-person singular present indicative of addurre

• deduca

addūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of addūcō

• IPA^(key): /ˈad(j)us/

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducin, simple past adduced, past participle adduced)

1. to adduce
2. (law) to bring forth as proof

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.