Induce

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To lead in; to Introduce.

II. Induce ·vt To draw on; to Overspread.

III. Induce ·vt To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars;

— the opposite of deduce.

IV. Induce ·vt To bring on; to Effect; to Cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.

V. Induce ·vt To lead on; to Influence; to prevail on; to Incite; to move by persuasion or influence.

VI. Induce ·vt 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.