to lead in; to introduce.-to draw on; to overspread.-to lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.-to bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.-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.-to generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.