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Induct v. t. (past & past part. inducted; pres. part. inducting)

To bring in; to introduce; to usher in. "The independent orator inducting himself without further ceremony into the pulpit."

To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies. "The prior, when inducted into that dignity, took an oath not to alienate any of their lands."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... further distinguished into presentative and collative. In a presentative advowson, the patron presents a clergyman to the bishop, with the petition that he be instituted into the vacant living. The bishop is bound to induct if he find the clergyman canonically qualified, and a refusal on his part is subject to an appeal to an ecclesiastical court either by patron or by presentee. In a collative advowson the bishop ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... Irene, with a touch of the old sarcasm, "I suppose he thought starving hardly a pleasant process while he was waiting for this high position. I have sometimes wondered why Mr. Minor did not take him into his office, and induct him into the mysteries ...

— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas

... existence. Congregationalism has no solid foundation either in Scripture or antiquity. The eldership, the most ancient court of the Church, commenced with the first preaching of the gospel; and in the account of the meeting of the Twelve to induct the deacons into office, we have the record of the first ordination performed by the laying on of the hands of the presbytery of Jerusalem. A few years afterwards the representatives of several Christian communities assembled in the holy city and "ordained decrees" ...

— The Ancient Church - Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution • W.D. [William Dool] Killen

... the best hand at that in the county—where Mrs. Bonner can teach them to make bread and pastry—she ought to be given a doctor's degree for that—where Mrs. Woodruff can teach them the cooking of turkeys, Mrs. Peterson the way to give the family a balanced ration, and Mrs. Simms induct them into the mysteries of weaving rag rugs and making jellies and preserves—you can all learn these things from her. There's somebody right in this neighborhood able to teach anything the ...

— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick

... say the crime is of so extraordinary a nature that the senate itself must adjudge it; and so the lictors are to induct ...

— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Words linked to "Induct" : invest, install, natural philosophy, learn, induce, instruct, physics, let in, invite, receive, take in