1. (v. t.) To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

2. (v. t.) To offer, as violence.

3. (v. t.) To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.

4. (v. t.) To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.

5. (v. t.) To show; to manifest; to prove.

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