induce

(in-dis’), v. t.; pret. and pp. induced, ppr. inducing. [ E. endue3), F. enduire = Pr. enduire, endurre = Sp. inducir = It. indurre, inducere), ¢ Li. inducere, lead in, bring in or to, introduce, induce Apoplexy, induced by the exce es of the preceding night, Sir Giles’s confidential leech pronounced to be the cause of his sudden di olution. Barham, In golds by Legends, I. 18. Solitude induced reflection, a reliance of the mind on its own resources, and individuality of character. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 205. 5. In physics, to cause or produce by proximity without contact or apparent transmi ion, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body which is in an opposite electric or magnetic state.— 6. To infer by induction. From a sufficient number of results a proposition or law is induced, the authority of which increases with the number and weight of those results, Science, XII. 304, =Syn. 3 and 4, Impel, Induce, ete. See actuate, and list under incite.