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<syn>Syn. -- Unquestionable; evident; incontrovertible; incontestable; undeniable; irrefragable.</syn>

<h1>Indubitableness</h1> <Xpage=754>

<hw>In*du"bi*ta*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being indubitable.</def>

<h1>Indubitably</h1> <Xpage=754>

<hw>In*du"bi*ta*bly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt.</def>

<blockquote>Oracles <b>indubitably</b> clear and infallibly certain. <i>Barrow.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Indubitate</h1> <Xpage=754>

<hw>In*du"bi*tate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>indubitatus</ets>; pref. <ets>in-</ets> not + <ets>dubitatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>dubitare</ets> to doubt.]</ety> <def>Not questioned or doubtful; evident; certain.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Indubitate</h1> <Xpage=754>

<hw>In*du"bi*tate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>indubitatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>indubitare</ets>; pref. <ets>in-</ets> in + <ets>dubitare</ets> to doubt.]</ety> <def>To bring into doubt; to cause to be doubted.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To conceal, or <b>indubitate</b>, his exigency. <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Induce</h1> <Xpage=754>

<hw>In*duce"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Induced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Inducing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>inducere</ets>, <ets>inductum</ets>; pref. <ets>in-</ets> in + <ets>ducere</ets> to lead. See <er>Duke</er>, and cf. <er>Induct</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To lead in; to introduce.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The poet may be seen <b>inducing</b> his personages in the first Iliad. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To draw on; to overspread. [<mark>A Latinism</mark>]</def>

<i>Cowper.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>He is not obliged by your offer to do it, . . . though he may be <b>induced</b>, persuaded, prevailed upon, tempted. <i>Paley.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Let not the covetous desire of growing rich <b>induce</b> you to ruin your reputation. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To bring on; to effect; to cause; <as>as, a fever <ex>induced</ex> by fatigue or exposure</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Sour things <b>induces</b> a contraction in the nerves. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Logic)</fld> <def>To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of <i>deduce</i>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- To move; instigate; urge; impel; incite; press; influence; actuate.</syn>