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Induce

verb

(past & past part. induced; pres. part. inducing)

Cause to arise. Synonym: bring on.

Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner. Synonyms: cause, get, have, make, stimulate. "My children finally got me to buy a computer" , "My wife made me buy a new sofa"

Cause to occur rapidly. Synonyms: hasten, rush, stimulate.

Reason or establish by induction.

Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes. Synonym: induct.

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"Induce" Quotes from Famous Books

... what is being paid you for doing it. To some people their own affairs are of such supreme importance that they cannot believe that their personal concerns are unknown to, and unregarded by, the outside world. The intensely personal, individual character of the actor's work is bound to induce a certain temptation to an exaggerated egotism. We are all egotists, and it is right that we should be, up to a point. But I would urge the young actor or actress to be always on the watch against developing, ...

— [19th Century Actor] Autobiographies • George Iles

... induce in a man of imagination a sense of sudden shy intimacy. The physical encounter seems to typify and foreshadow some intermingling of destiny. This occurs with peculiar force when the lady is as beautiful as was the girl I ...

— The Indiscretion of the Duchess • Anthony Hope

... always goes forward, chewing, swallowing, digesting, until the caterpillar's skin is emptied of its contents. Once seated at table, it does not budge as long as the victuals last. To tease it with a straw is not always enough to induce it to withdraw its head outside the wound; I have to use violence. When removed by force and then left to its own devices, the creature hesitates for a long time, stretches itself and mouths around, without trying to open a passage through a new wound. It needs the attacking ...

— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

... "we are not as destitute as I said. I exaggerated our misfortune. We are still landed proprietors. Last year an old cousin, whom I could never induce to come and live at Sairmeuse, died, bequeathing all her property to Marie-Anne. This property consisted of a poor little cottage near the Reche, with a little garden and a few acres of sterile land. In ...

— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau

... forces after a battle. In the Everlasting battle the combatants were by some strange trick of fate obliged to fulfil a perennial weird (like the unhappy Vanderdecken). Spells to wake the dead were written on wood and put under the corpses' tongue. Spells (written on bark) induce frenzy. ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

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