adduce

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adducere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + ducere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.

verb

1. (transitive) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
   Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. 1840, Thomas de Quincey, "Style" (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1840
   But he adduces many recent facts, such as the overhead wiring in 1959 for electric working of the ex-S.E.R. Angerstein's Wharf branch. 1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: London Railways. By Edwin Course. Batsford. 35s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page
   Both the rise and fall of the Stalinist regimes can be adduced against the Manifesto: the former, because what came into being was so inimical to human liberation, the latter because whether one supported or opposed it, it failed. 2022, China Miéville, chapter 5, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC
2. (transitive, law, Scotland) To produce in proof.