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▪ I. inˈducing, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb induce. a. Persuading. b. Bringing about.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Baptista 265 Endusing makis men to pennance for þare syne to do. 1548–67Thomas Ital. Dict., Indezzamento, an enducing, perswasion, or entisement. 1626Bacon Sylva §304 The Causes for the Accelerating of Clarification, in generall, and the Enducing of it. 1887Sayer tr. Dante, Convito ii. xiv. 83 The inducing of perfection in the things so inclined.
▪ II. inˈducing, ppl. a.
[f. as. prec. + -ing2.]
1. That induces, persuades, or leads on.
1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall xix, He did punishe..the seducing serpent with a curse, the inducing Eua with a crosse of subjection. 1640Bastwick Lord Bps. viii. H iij b, The prime inducing cause to that beleif. 1700Col. Rec. Pennsylv. II. 10 That being the Inducing reason at first to Settle the Town where it now is.
†2. Introductory, preliminary. Obs.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. Ded. §15 But the inducing part of the latter (which is the survey of learning) may be set forward.
3. Producing electric or magnetic effects by induction.
1837Penny Cycl. IX. 343/1 Hence the directions of the inducing and induced currents are contrary. 1870Tyndall Lect. Electr. 15 Its attracted electricity is held captive by the inducing electrified body. 1870R. M. Ferguson Electr. 7 If the inducing magnet be strong enough, the induced magnet..can induce a bar like itself..to become a magnet.
4. That induces or brings about; causing induction (see induction 9).
1931J. Needham Chem. Embryol. I. 579 Regeneration of the adult amphibian lens takes place under the inducing influence of the retina. 1947Growth XI. 237 Each of these two closely related compounds induced within the same cells the formation of different enzyme systems, each completely specific towards the inducing agent. 1950L. G. Barth tr. Brachet's Chem. Embryol. x. 345 (heading) Metabolism of the organization center and chemical nature of the inducing substance. 1966E. R. M. Kay Biochem. xxvii. 354 One form [of repressor] is active as a repressor, but combines with an inducer if present in the form of an inducing substrate, thereby becoming an inactive form so that the structural gene may form ‘messenger’ RNA normally. 1968M. W. Strickberger Genetics xix. 401 The ‘inducing’ trigger that produces lysis in lysogenic strains..involves a change in the activity of the phage from a quiescent prophage state to a proliferative vegetative state. |