induce

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To lead in; to introduce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

2.To draw on; to overspread. [A Latinism] --Cowper. [1913 Webster]

3.To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to persuade; to move by persuasion or influence. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

He is not obliged by your offer to do it, . . . though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted.— Paley.[1913 Webster]

Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

4.To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure; anaphylactic shock induced by exposure to a allergen. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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.. [PJC]

Syn: To move; instigate; urge; impel; incite; press; influence; actuate. [1913 Webster]