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.