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▪ I. † inˈduct, ppl. a. Obs. rare.
Also 5 en-.
[ad. L. inductus, pa. pple. of indūcĕre to induce.]
a. Induced.
b. Initiated, instructed.
c. Introduced.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 308 Jon..vas loth to resine; but be the emperoure he vas induct that he schuld do it. 1481Caxton Godefroy cxcv. 286 In his harnoys and armes wel enducte and acustomed, that it semed that hit greued ne coste hym nothyng to bere them. 1545Primer Hen. VIII (Prayers), Grant..that, all the course of my life being led in holiness and purity, I may be induct at last into the ever⁓lasting rest.
▪ II. induct, v.|ɪnˈdʌkt|
[f. L. induct-, ppl. stem of indūcĕre to induce.]
1. a. trans. Eccl. To introduce formally into possession of a benefice or living, to install. (See induction 4.)
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 450 Instuyng wiþ inducting & many oþere mannus lawis weren not to charge, but riȝt offiss þat þis curat shulde do. 1495Fabyan Chron. vii. 455 That no man..shuld present or inducte any suche persone or persones that so by the pope were promoted. 1531Dial. on Laws Eng. ii. xxvi. (1638) 111 If he be able, then the Bishop to admit him, institute him, & induct him. 1667Answ. Quest. out of North 7 By Instituting and Inducting Parsons and Vicars to Benefices when they fall. 1712Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4) 25 Every Vicar, when he is inducted into the Church, takes possession of the Body of the Church. 1846Hawthorne Mosses ii. vii. 123 Lately he has taken orders, and been inducted to a small country living.
b. To introduce into office, to install.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 17 b, Then John..woulde in all haste have rydden to induct the French kyng as their sovereigne lorde. 1820Scott Monast. xix, Thy knee, my son—that we may, with our own hand..induct thee into office. 1828Webster s.v., In the United States, certain civil officers and presidents of colleges, are inducted into office with appropriate ceremonies.
c. To place or install in a seat, room, etc.
1706–7Farquhar Beaux' Strat. ii. ii, Then I, Sir, tips me the Verger with half a Crown; he pockets the Simony, and Inducts me into the best Pue in the Church. 1826Scott Woodst. i, Inducting himself into the pulpit without further ceremony. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lx, Hugh and his two friends..were received with signal marks of approbation, and inducted into the most honourable seats.
2. a. To lead, conduct into (lit. and fig.). rare.
1600Holland Livy 1029 So soone as any one is inducted and brought in thither, she or he is delivered to the priests as a very sacrifice to be killed. 1861Crt. Life at Naples 239 She led the way to the galleria, into which she first inducted the visitor. 1876World V. No. 106. 11, I was inducted into error last week in stating [etc.]. 1881Stevenson Virg. Puerisque 155 Thus gradually inducted into the slumber of death.
b. To lead in (before a court). rare.
1834Lytton Pompeii iv. vii, They say the crime is of so extraordinary a nature, that the senate itself must adjudge it; and so the lictors are to induct him formally.
3. a. To introduce (to); to initiate (into).
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 461 There was a sacrificer or priest named Philippus, who inducted and professed men in the ceremoniall religion of Orpheus. 1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Wedding, [At weddings] I feel a sort of cousinship for the season. I am inducted into degrees of affinity. 1845J. Saunders Cab. Pict. Eng. Life, Chaucer 23 The master of the inn..inducts us into all its hidden mysteries. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lvi, The pleasures to which the footman inducted him.
b. U.S. To bring into military service.
1934Webster, Induct, to enroll for military service in compliance with a draft law, as the selective service act of 1917. 1940Congress. Rec. 6 Sept. 11675/2 Men..who are voluntarily inducted pursuant to this act. Ibid. 11676/1 The word ‘inducted’ I maintain means any of them [service men] because they are taken in... They are inducted either after they volunteer or after they are conscripted. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. ii. 7/7 Muhammad (Clay) was to be inducted—supposed to be inducted—into the Army April 11.
†4. To bring in, introduce (a custom). Obs.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 24 The ceremonies in the gathering hereof were first inducted by the Venetians. Ibid. 85 Who use extreme unction, as inducted by Saint James.
5. absol. To form an induction; to infer by induction. rare.
1832Whewell in Todhunter's Acc. Whewell's Writ. (1876) II. 141 The conceptions which must exist in the mind in order to get by induction a law from a collection of facts; and the impossibility of inducting or even of collecting without this.
6. Electr. = induce v. 4 b. See inducting ppl. a. |