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Induced   /ɪndˈust/   Listen
Induced

adjective
1.
Brought about or caused; not spontaneous.  Antonym: spontaneous.


Induce

verb
(past & past part. induced; pres. part. inducing)
1.
Cause to arise.  Synonym: bring on.
2.
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"
3.
Cause to occur rapidly.  Synonyms: hasten, rush, stimulate.
4.
Reason or establish by induction.
5.
Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes.  Synonym: induct.



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"Induced" Quotes from Famous Books



... a certain kind of rays which are themselves invisible to the human eye. Prescott, your story of the transmutation of elements is very clever, but not more clever than your real story. Let us piece it together. I had already heard from Dr. Burnham how Mr. Haswell was induced by his desire for gain to visit you and how you had most mysteriously predicted his blindness. Now, there is no such thing as telepathy, at least in this case. How then was I to explain it? What could cause such a catastrophe naturally? Why, only those ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... to Poland Mr. Nicholas B. described him as a "worthy man but stupid," whenever he could be induced to speak of the conditions of his exile. Declining the option offered him to enter the Russian army, he was retired with only half the pension of his rank. His nephew (my uncle and guardian) told me that the first lasting impression ...
— A Personal Record • Joseph Conrad
... while the servility of its population was to create a new type of Roman ruler in the man who for one glorious year wielded the power of a Pergamene despot, without the restraint of kingly traditions or the continence induced by an ...
— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge
... was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which induced reflection. Once he was begging for the poor in a drawing-room of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy and avaricious old man, who contrived to be, at one and the same time, an ultra-royalist and an ultra-Voltairian. This variety of man has actually ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... from the landscape, the trite and positive forms of life, banished for a time, reappear, and deepen our mournful remembrance of the glories they replace. And the Woman of the World, finding how little I was induced to respond to her when she had talked of myself, began to speak, in her habitual clear, ringing accents, of her own ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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