Educe vs Construe - What's the difference?
educe | construe |
To draw out or bring out; elicit or evoke.
To infer or deduce.
To interpret or explain the meaning of something.
(grammar) To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence.
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To translate.
As verbs the difference between educe and construe
is that educe is to draw out or bring out; elicit or evoke while construe is to interpret or explain the meaning of something.As a noun construe is
a translation.educe
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(educ)Anagrams
* ----construe
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(en-verb)- The world must construe''' according to its wits; this court must '''construe according to the law.
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- Thus, in a sentence such as:
(113) John considers [S Fred'' to be too sure of ''himself'']
the italicised Reflexive ''himself'' can only be construed''' with ''Fred'', not with ''John'': this follows from our assumption that non-subject Reflexives must have an antecedent within their own S. Notice, however, that in a sentence such as:
(114) ''John'' seems to me [S — to have perjured ''himself'']
''himself'' must be '''construed with ''John .
