\In*fer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inferred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Inferring}.] [L. inferre to bring into, bring forward,
occasion, infer; pref. in- in + ferre to carry, bring: cf. F.
inf['e]rer. See 1 st {Bear}.]
1. To bring on; to induce; to occasion. [Obs.] --Harvey.
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.