Lalemant, when pierced with the arrows of the Iroquois, rejoiced that his martyrdom would induce others to follow his example.

But Aëtius, pressed by the arms of Attila, the most terrible enemy that ever assailed the empire, had no leisure to attend to the complaints of allies, whom generosity alone could induce him to assist [v].

The United Provinces rejected at once the overtures made by the prince of Parma to induce them to obedience.

The king of Poland sent ambassadors to The Hague and to London, to induce the states and Queen Elizabeth to become parties in a general pacification.

His hands felt cold, and he was compelled at times to get up and thrash both arms about to induce circulation in his extremities.

Induce her if you can to make them generously and without appearing to grudge them.

or, what is perhaps more to the purpose, that a provincial administration, formed on the principle of desisting from all attempts to induce the Imperial Government to repeal the Imperial statute on this subject, would be sustained?

I have made some suggestions with this view, which I hope to be able to induce the Legislature to adopt.

He would frequently, against his own interest, persuade a litigant of the injustice of his case, and induce him to throw it up.

Heaven Smild at the contract twixt us; quiers of Saints Receivd our mutuall vowes, and though your Mother May in her passion seeme to have forgott Her pretious faith, yet when I shall awake Her sleeping reason with the memory Of that has past betwixt us, my strong hope Tells me I shall induce her to the spheare Which she has movd from.

His comedy of the Good Natured Man, though it had received the sanction of Burke's approval, did not please Garrick sufficiently to induce him to venture it on his theatre.

He was resolved that no consideration should induce him to surrender the independence of his judgment on this, or any other national topic.

Moreover, to persuade women that it is not to themselves they are indebted for the virtue they possess, might it mot deprive them of the most powerful motive to induce them to preserve it?

V. induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse &c n.; to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, beckon. stimulate &c (excite) 824; spirit up, inspirit; rouse, arouse; animate, incite, foment, provoke, instigate, set on, actuate; act upon, work upon, operate upon; encourage; pat on the back, pat on the shoulder, clap on the back, clap on the shoulder.

Adj. dissuading &c v.; dissuasive; dehortatory^, expostulatory^; monitive^, monitory. dissuaded &c v.; admonitory; uninduced &c (induce) &c 615; unpersuadable &c (obstinate) 606; averse &c (unwilling) 603; repugnant &c (dislike) 867. repressed.

The treaty which had been so long in agitation between them was privately signed; and the king returned[c] this answer to the two houses, that neither his present sufferings, nor the apprehension of worse treatment, should ever induce him to give his assent to any bills [Sidenote a: A.D. 1647.

Whenever he could, he would accompany her to school, holding her by the hand, and, fond as he was of rough play, nothing would induce him to leave her.

Some probably will say, "What argument can induce us to believe a man in a concern of this nature who gives no visible credentials to his authority?"

The repulsive masks and the backward wriggling of the six upon the floor had upset his fighting stomach for the time being, and we could not induce him to return.

He listened more and more eagerly to the criminal suggestions of his corrupt heart, and he had done nothing during the last few days but go backwards and forwards in order to induce the chief priests to come to some agreement.

We were surprised to discover that they seemed to be known wherever we became acquainted with the people and had obtained their confidence sufficiently to induce them to talk freely.

It is just possible, however, I fairly admit, that Mr. Napier, who was a very eccentric man, may have so worded the letter as to induce the world to believe that the so-considered illegitimate child had been dead-born, while he gratifiedprivately he might verily thinkhis vengeance by writing this terrible curse.

And if you can induce Donna Veronica to forgive your brother and your brother's wife, by telling her the truth without prevarication, you will have done something to atone for the past evil which, you cannot undo.

" Mr. Baldwin of Georgia said that the clause in the U.S. Constitution relating to direct taxes "was intended to prevent Congress from laying any special tax upon negro slaves, as they might, in this way, so burthen the possessors of them, as to induce a GENERAL EMANCIPATION.

Mr. Howell then informed them that we had come from America, where there were a great many slaves: that we had visited Antigua to see how freedom was working, and whether the people who were made free on the first of August were doing welland added, that he "hoped these gentlemen might be able to carry back such a report as would induce the masters in America to set their slaves free."