induce

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
induce /ɪnˈdjuːs/

▶verb

• 1 succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something.

• 2 bring about or give rise to.

  ■ produce (an electric charge or current or a magnetic state) by induction.

• 3 Medicine bring on (childbirth or abortion) artificially, typically by the use of drugs.

• 4 Logic derive by inductive reasoning.

– derivatives
inducer noun,
inducible adjective.

– origin ME: from L. induct-, inducere ‘lead in’, or from Fr. enduire.