CIDE DICTIONARY
inductive,
a. [LL.
inductivus: cf. F.
inductif. See
Induce.].
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Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by
to. [
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"A brutish vice,
Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve."
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Tending to induce or cause. [
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"They may be . . . inductive of credibility."
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Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning. [1913 Webster]
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Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine. [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.
THESAURUS
inductive
Baconian, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, analytic, categorical, conditional, deductive, dialectic, discursive, enthymematic, epagogic, hypothetical, inferential, introductory, maieutic, prefatory, prelim, preludial, prelusive, preparative, preparatory, proemial, soritical, syllogistic, synthetic