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verb

Induce v. t. (past & past part. induced; pres. part. inducing)

1.

To lead in; to introduce. (Obs.) "The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad."

2.

To draw on; to overspread. (A Latinism)

3.

To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to persuade; to move by persuasion or influence. "He is not obliged by your offer to do it,... though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted." "Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation."

4.

To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure; anaphylactic shock induced by exposure to a allergen. "Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves."

5.

(Physics) To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.

6.

(Logic) To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; the opposite of deduce.

7.

(Genetics, Biochemistry) To cause the expression of (a gene or gene product) by affecting a transcription control element on the genome, either by inhibiting a negative control or by activating a positive control; to derepress; as, lactose induces the production of beta-galactosidase in Eschericia coli..

Synonyms: To move; instigate; urge; impel; incite; press; influence; actuate.

adjective

induced adj. Brought about or caused; not spontaneous; as, a case of steroid-induced weakness. Contrasted to spontaneous. (Narrower terms: elicited, evoked)

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Etymology of 'Induced'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Induced" Quotes from Famous Books

... without one false quantity, he repeats for us in a resonant voice. He can recite the whole of "Paradise Lost" as faultlessly as Macaulay was credited with being able to do. If Mr. Harris could be induced to write a story of the North it would put to shame all the weak efforts of one-season visitors who of necessity see only the surface and have ...

— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... became a commoner of Queen's,[1] whence, on the 29th of July, 1741, he was elected a demy of Magdalen College. During his stay at Queen's he was distinguished for genius and indolence, and the few exercises which he could be induced to write bear evident marks of both qualities. He continued at Oxford until he took his bachelor's degree, and then suddenly left the University, his motive, as he alleged, being that he missed a fellowship, ...

— The Poetical Works of William Collins - With a Memoir • William Collins

... my trapeze, a sight to have induced any passing citizen to question his sanity. With might and main I sought to check the swing of the pendulum, for if I should come within reach of the window behind I doubted not that other knives awaited me. It was no difficult feat, and I succeeded in checking ...

— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... length into an examination of the evidence tending to show Crandall's good character, and the accidents which brought him here and induced him to make it his permanent residence. The trouble and excitement, he said, had not been owing to the prisoner or to any act of his, but was entirely owing to the misapplied zeal of the officers, and to their indiscretion and stupidity. He said he had gone over all the evidence of publication, ...

— The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. • Unknown

... over him. With ready cunning he looked another way, but it was too late. Robinson had caught that furtive glance, and a chill came over him that this villain should have seen the prize, a thing to excite cupidity to frenzy. Nothing now would have induced Robinson ...

— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

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