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–verb (used with object)

1.	to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., esp. with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.

2.	to introduce, esp. to something requiring special knowledge or experience; initiate (usually fol. by to or into): They inducted him into the mystic rites of the order.

3.	to take (a draftee) into military service; draft.

4.	to bring in as a member: to induct a person into a new profession.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < L inductus ptp. of indūcere, equiv. to induc- (see induce) + -tus ptp. suffix

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tr.v. in·duct·ed, in·duct·ing, in·ducts

To place ceremoniously or formally in an office or a position; install: a service to induct the new president of the university.
1. To admit as a member; receive.
2. To admit to military service: a draftee waiting to be inducted into the army.
3. To introduce, as to new experience or knowledge; initiate: She was inducted into the ways of the legal profession.
Physics To induce.

[Middle English inducten, from Latin indūcere, induct-; see induce.]

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c.1378, from L. inductus, pp. of inducere "to lead" (see induce). Originally of church offices; sense of "bring into military service" is 1934 in Amer.Eng. Induction as a term of logic (c.1440) is from L. inductio, used by Cicero to translate Gk. epagoge "leading to" in Aristotle; as a term of science, c.1800. Induction starts with known instances and arrives at generalizations; deduction starts from the general principal and arrives at some individual fact.

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induct
verb
1.	place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
2.	accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite; "African men are initiated when they reach puberty" [syn: initiate]
3.	admit as a member; "We were inducted into the honor society"
4.	produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes [syn: induce]
5.	introduce or initiate; "The young geisha was inducted into the ways of her profession"

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Induct

In*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Induced; p. pr. & vb. n. Inducing.] [L. inducere, inductum; pref. in- in + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Induct.]

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

The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad. --Pope.

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

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

He is not obliged by your offer to do it, . . . though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted. --Paley.

Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation. --Dryden.

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

Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves. --Bacon.

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.

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

Syn: To move; instigate; urge; impel; incite; press; influence; actuate.

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