Verb

(entic)

To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.

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I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.

Verb

To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.

* Alexander Pope

O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes / From the dire nation in its early times?

* John Locke

Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.

* Sir Walter Scott

See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors.

(obsolete) To take away; to deduct; to subtract.

to deduce a part from the whole

(Ben Jonson)

(obsolete, Latinism) To lead forth.

* Selden

He should hither deduce a colony.