inductive

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1. human sciencesOf, or relating to logical induction, by generalizing a universal claim or principle from the observed particular instances.
2. natural sciencesOf, relating to, or arising from inductance.
3. Introductory or preparatory.
4. Influencing; tending to induce or cause.

   They may be […] inductive of credibility.

   a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC

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   A brutish vice, / Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.

   1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC