Induct Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-dŭkt
To admit formally into membership or office, as with ritual
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. inaugurate
  2. initiate
  3. install
  4. instate
  5. invest
To enroll compulsorily in military service
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. initiate
  2. draft
  3. conscript
  4. enlist
  5. recruit
  6. admit
  7. invest
  8. enroll
  9. inaugurate
  10. install
  11. levy
  12. instate
  13. register
  14. seat
Antonyms:
  1. reject
  2. turn-away
  3. blackball
  4. expel
Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. induce

Words Related to Induct

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. accept
  2. give
  3. re-integrated
  4. reincorporate

Induct Sentence Examples

  • By the new policy inaugurated by Dr William Robertson (1721-1793), which led to the second secession, the assembly compelled presbyteries to give effect to presentations, and in a long series of disputed settlements the " call," though still held essential to a settlement, was less and less regarded, until it was declared that it was not necessary, and that the church courts were bound to induct any qualified presentee.

  • When a woman's water breaks before she is actually in active labor, although this is a controversial reason to induct.

  • It is the privilege of the archdeacon of Canterbury to induct the archbishop and all the bishops of the province of Canterbury into their respective bishoprics, and this he does in the case of a bishop under a mandate from the archbishop of Canterbury, directing him to induct the bishop into the real, actual, and corporal possession of the bishopric, and to install and to enthrone him; and in the case of the archbishop, under an analogous mandate from the dean and chapter of Canterbury, as being guardians of the spiritualities during the vacancy of the archiepiscopal see.

  • After the bishop or his commissary has instituted the presentee, he issues a mandate under seal, addressed to the archdeacon or some other neighbouring clergyman, authorizing him to induct the clerk into his benefice, - in other words, to put him into legal possession of the temporalities, which is done by some outward form, and for the most part by delivery of the bell-rope to the clerk, who thereupon tolls the bell.

  • The bishops of England have also jurisdiction to examine clerks who may be presented to benefices within their respective dioceses, and they are bound in each case by the 95th canon of 1604 to inquire and inform themselves of the sufficiency of each clerk within twenty-eight days, after which time, if they have not rejected him as insufficiently qualified, they are bound to institute him, or to license him, as the case may be, to the benefice, and thereupon to send their mandate to the archdeacon to induct him into the temporalities of the benefice.

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