Verb

To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

We invited our friends round for dinner.

To request formally.

I invite you all to be seated.

To encourage.

I always invite criticism of my definitions.

Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.

* 1902 , Roosevelt,

The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.

To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

* Milton

to inveigle and invite the unwary sense

* Dryden

shady groves, that easy sleep invite

* Cowper

There no delusive hope invites despair.

Verb

(induc)

To lead by persuasion or influence; incite.

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To cause, bring about, lead to.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club

, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992) , passage=A mere glance at the plot descriptions of the show’s fourth season is enough to induce Pavlovian giggle fits and shivers of joy. }}

(physics) To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction.

(logic) To infer by induction.

(obsolete) To lead in, bring in, introduce.

(obsolete) To draw on, place upon.