Induction
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) 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.
(2): ( n.) An introduction or introductory scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue.
(3): ( n.) 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.
(4): ( n.) 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.
(5): ( n.) 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.
(6): ( n.) The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(Lat. inductio, from duco, I lead) is a term in ecclesiastical law for the act by which a clergyman in the Church of England, having been presented to a benefice by its patron is brought in to the possession of the freehold of the church and glebe. This is usually done by a mandate, under the seal of the bishop, addressed to the archdeacon, who either in person inducts the minister, or commissions some clergyman in his archdeaconry to perform that office. The archdeacon, or his deputy, inducts the incumbent, by laying his hand on the key of the church as it lies in the lock, and using this form: "I induct you into the real and actual possession of the rectory or vicarage of M., with all its profits and appurtenances." The church door is then opened; the incumbent enters, and generally tolls a bell, in token of having entered on his spiritual duties. In Scotland the Presbytery induct the minister.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
The name given to the logical process by which from a study of particular instances we arrive at a general principle or law. The term is also applied to an electric or magnetic effect produced without direct contact and equal to the cause, being essentially its reproduction.
