(1):
(v. t.) To offer, as violence.
(2):
(v. t.) To bring on; to induce; to occasion.
(3):
(v. t.) To show; to manifest; to prove.
(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 bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.