The Good Oil Word of the Day

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induce (verb):

1a: to move by persuasion or influence
b: to call forth or bring about by influence or stimulation
2a: effect, cause
b: to cause the formation of
c: to produce by induction
3: to determine by induction

Source : Merriam -Webster

Etymology : Middle English, from Anglo-French inducer, from Latin inducere, from in- + ducere to lead. Inducing is usually gentle persuasion; you may, for instance, induce a friend to go to a concert, or induce a child to stop crying. An inducement is something that might lure you to do something, though inducements are occasionally a bit menacing, like the Godfather's offer that you can't refuse. Induce also sometimes means "produce;" thus, doctors must at times induce labor in a pregnant woman. Notice that induct and induction are somewhat different from induce and inducement, though they come from the identical roots.

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