Definition of induce
- v. t. - To lead in; to introduce.
- v. t. - To draw on; to overspread.
- v. t. - To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to
move by persuasion or influence.
- v. t. - To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by
fatigue or exposure.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the
particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.