# adduce
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English adducen, from Latin addūcere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + dūcere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /əˈd(j)uːs/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈdjuːs/, /əˈdʒuːs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːs

### Verb

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducing, simple past and past participle adduced)
* (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 XII, 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: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, “Introduction”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 2: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, unnumbered page: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: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.
* (transitive, Scots law) To produce in proof.

#### Synonyms

* advance
* allege
* assign
* cite
* mention
* name
* point out
* present
* quote
* urge

#### Derived terms

* adduceable
* adducer
* adducible
* readduce

#### Translations
### References

* “adduce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “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, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Italian
### Verb

adduce
* third-person singular present indicative of addurre

### Anagrams

* deduca

## Latin
### Verb

addūce
* second-person singular present active imperative of addūcō

## Scots
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈad(j)us/

### Verb

adduce (third-person singular simple present adduces, present participle adducin, simple past adduced, past participle adduced)
* to adduce (bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case)
* (transitive, Scots law) to adduce (produce in proof)

### References

* “adduce, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
* Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.