2. To offer, as violence. [Obs.] --Spenser.
3. To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to
allege; to offer. [Obs.]
Full well hath Clifford played the orator, Inferring
arguments of mighty force. --Shak.
4. 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.
To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition
laid down as true, to draw in another as true.
--Locke.
Such opportunities always infer obligations.
--Atterbury.
5. To show; to manifest; to prove. [Obs.]
The first part is not the proof of the second, but
rather contrariwise, the second inferreth well the
first. --Sir T. More.
This doth infer the zeal I had to see him. --Shak.