To lead in; bring in; introduce.To draw on; place upon.To lead by persuasion or influence; prevail upon; incite.To lead to; bring about by persuasion or influence; bring on or produce in any way; cause: as, his mediation induced a compromise; opium induces sleep.In physics, to cause or produce by proximity without contact or apparent transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body which is in an opposite electric or magnetic state.To infer by induction.Synonyms and Impel, Induce, etc. See actuate, and list under incite.