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subinfer

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English

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Etymology

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From sub- +‎ infer.

Verb

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subinfer (third-person singular simple present subinfers, present participle subinferring, simple past and past participle subinferred)

  1. (obsolete) To infer from an inference already made.
    • a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, Resolutions for Religion:
      it is easily subinfer'd that it is nor lawful for Christian Churches , [] to forsake the communion of each other

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for subinfer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

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Verb

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subīnfer

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of subīnferō