Definition of Induce

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Induce

To lead in; to introduce.

To draw on; to overspread.

To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.

To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.

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.

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

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Induce Quotations

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
Wilson Mizner

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Marianne Williamson

Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.
Lawrence Halprin

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
Aldrich Ames

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
Lorna Luft

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
Harold Bloom

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
Keith Henson

Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.
Alphonsus Liguori

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg

Induce Translations

induce in Danish is slutte
induce in Dutch is besluiten, afleiden, concluderen
induce in French is induis, induisons, induisent, induissez, induire
induce in German is veranlassen, induzieren, veranlassen, bewegen
induce in Italian is provocare
induce in Latin is induco, adduco, induco indux inductum
induce in Portuguese is induza
induce in Spanish is inducir

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