a. [f. Faraday (see prec.) + -IC.] Used as a distinctive epithet of inductive electricity and of the phenomena pertaining to it.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 37. When the faradaic current elicits a response it should always be employed.
1881. D. E. Hughes, Molecular Electromagnetic Induction, in Nature, XXIII., 31 March, 522/1. If I strongly magnetise the two ends of the wire, I find by rapidly moving the coil that there is a Faradaic induction of 50° at both poles, but very little or none at the centre of the wire.
1885. Lancet, 26 Sept., 568/1. Sensation and faradaic contractility were normal, and there was perfect control over the sphincters.
