2. a complex of beliefs and values and customs including worship of many gods, especially the Trimurti composed of Brahma the Creator; Vishnu the preserver; and Shiva the destroyer.
Syn. -- Hindooism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a form of Hindi spoken around Delhi. See Hindoostanee.
Syn. -- Hindoostani, Hindoostanee, Hindostani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. Not dubious or doubtful; certain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not doubting; unsuspecting. “Indubious confidence.” Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Unquestionable; evident; incontrovertible; incontestable; undeniable; irrefragable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oracles indubitably clear and infallibly certain. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

To conceal, or indubitate, his exigency. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To lead in; to introduce. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw on; to overspread. [ A Latinism ] Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to persuade; to move by persuasion or influence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is not obliged by your offer to do it, . . . though he may be induced, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let not the covetous desire of growing rich induce you to ruin your reputation. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure; anaphylactic shock induced by exposure to a allergen. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Sour things induces a contraction in the nerves. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Physics) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Logic) To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.

7. (Genetics, Biochemistry) To cause the expression of (a gene or gene product) by affecting a transcription control element on the genome, either by inhibiting a negative control or by activating a positive control; to derepress; as, lactose induces the production of beta-galactosidase in Eschericia coli.. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- To move; instigate; urge; impel; incite; press; influence; actuate. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of inducing, or the state of being induced. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which induces; a motive or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an inducement to toil. “Mark the inducement.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Motive; reason; influence. See Motive. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: (Genetics) A substance which, when it contacts a living cell, causes the activation of a gene; as, non-metabolizable inducers are useful for studying the kinetics of genetic control systems. [ PJC ]

2. Obtainable by induction; derivable; inferable. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To bring in; to introduce; to usher in. [ 1913 Webster ]

The independent orator inducting himself without further ceremony into the pulpit. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prior, when inducted into that dignity, took an oath not to alienate any of their lands. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The unit of inductance is the henry. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

1. The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

These promises are fair, the parties sure,
And our induction dull of prosperous hope. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An introduction or introductory scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This is but an induction: I will draw
The curtains of the tragedy hereafter. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Philos.) The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. [ 1913 Webster ]

Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class, is true of the whole class, or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Math.) A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also successive induction. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Physics) The property by which one body, having electrical or magnetic polarity, causes or induces it in another body without direct contact; an impress of electrical or magnetic force or condition from one body on another without actual contact. [ 1913 Webster ]

Electro-dynamic induction, the action by which a variable or interrupted current of electricity excites another current in a neighboring conductor forming a closed circuit. --
Electro-magnetic induction, the influence by which an electric current produces magnetic polarity in certain bodies near or around which it passes. --
Electro-static induction, the action by which a body possessing a charge of statical electricity develops a charge of statical electricity of the opposite character in a neighboring body. --
Induction coil, an apparatus producing induced currents of great intensity. It consists of a coil or helix of stout insulated copper wire, surrounded by another coil of very fine insulated wire, in which a momentary current is induced, when a current (as from a voltaic battery), passing through the inner coil, is made, broken, or varied. The inner coil has within it a core of soft iron, and is connected at its terminals with a condenser; -- called also inductorium, and Ruhmkorff's coil. --
Induction pipe,
Induction port, or
Induction valve, a pipe, passageway, or valve, for leading or admitting a fluid to a receiver, as steam to an engine cylinder, or water to a pump. --
Magnetic induction, the action by which magnetic polarity is developed in a body susceptible to magnetic effects when brought under the influence of a magnet. --
Magneto-electric induction, the influence by which a magnet excites electric currents in closed circuits. [ 1913 Webster ]

Logical induction, (Philos.), an act or method of reasoning from all the parts separately to the whole which they constitute, or into which they may be united collectively; the operation of discovering and proving general propositions; the scientific method. --
Philosophical induction, the inference, or the act of inferring, that what has been observed or established in respect to a part, individual, or species, may, on the ground of analogy, be affirmed or received of the whole to which it belongs. This last is the inductive method of Bacon. It ascends from the parts to the whole, and forms, from the general analogy of nature, or special presumptions in the case, conclusions which have greater or less degrees of force, and which may be strengthened or weakened by subsequent experience and experiment. It relates to actual existences, as in physical science or the concerns of life. Logical induction is founded on the necessary laws of thought; philosophical induction, on the interpretation of the indications or analogy of nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Deduction. -- Induction, Deduction. In induction we observe a sufficient number of individual facts, and, on the ground of analogy, extend what is true of them to others of the same class, thus arriving at general principles or laws. This is the kind of reasoning in physical science. In deduction we begin with a general truth, which is already proven or provisionally assumed, and seek to connect it with some particular case by means of a middle term, or class of objects, known to be equally connected with both. Thus, we bring down the general into the particular, affirming of the latter the distinctive qualities of the former. This is the syllogistic method. By induction Franklin established the identity of lightning and electricity; by deduction he inferred that dwellings might be protected by lightning rods. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brutish vice,
Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tending to induce or cause. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They may be . . . inductive of credibility. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Physics) (a) Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine. (b) Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as, certain substances have a great inductive capacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inductive embarrassment (Physics), the retardation in signaling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction. --
Inductive philosophy or
Inductive method. See Philosophical induction, under Induction. --
Inductive sciences, those sciences which admit of, and employ, the inductive method, as astronomy, botany, chemistry, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The person who inducts another into an office or benefice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Elec.) That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To put on, as clothes; to draw on. [ 1913 Webster ]

The baron had indued a pair of jack boots. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Indued with intellectual sense and souls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain; (a) when said of a habit, desire, etc.: to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations; (b) when said of a person: to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request. [ 1913 Webster ]

Persuading us that something must be indulged to public manners. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light
Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night! Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is remarked by Johnson, that if the matter of indulgence is a single thing, it has with before it; if it is a habit, it has in; as, he indulged himself with a glass of wine or a new book; he indulges himself in idleness or intemperance. See Gratify. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control. [ 1913 Webster ]

If I were a judge, that word indulgence should never issue from my lips. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification. [ 1913 Webster ]

If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (R. C. Ch.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

The indulgent censure of posterity. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

The feeble old, indulgent of their ease. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Spain) A duty levied on all importations. [ 1913 Webster ]