superinduce
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of superinduce
From the Latin word superindūcere, dating back to 1545–55. See super-, induce
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You cannot close your shutters and light your candles; that in the tone of mind which circumstances superinduce would be brutality.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
He scanned the vagabond sharply, as he stood moulding a soft hat on his hands, and trying to superinduce an air of piteous appeal upon the natural gaiety of his swarthy face.
From The Minister's Charge by William Dean Howells
Man may superinduce upon them what he calls improvements, because they better fit them for his purposes.
From The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society by William Withington
The rank, aqueous fodders grown on such soils are other causes, but these again are calculated to undermine the character of the nervous and sanguineous temperament and to superinduce the lymphatic.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Seeing life large.—The bigness of her spirit and her ability to see and feel life in the large superinduce dignity, poise, and serenity.
From The Vitalized School by Francis B. Pearson
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
From Time Magazine Archive
It resembled thus the heterogeneous furniture of his own mind, with an incongruous ingredient of superinduced religion; but, on the whole, unpresentable and unclean.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
Every physician has seen nursing infants made sick by the change in the milk superinduced by strong mental emotions in the mother.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
To its axis, the world being nothing but superinduced superficies.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
And now, superinduced upon this cause of misery, had come the tidings which had been spread everywhere through the county in regard to the Galway hunt.
From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
It was formerly considered a new growth, but recent opinion tends toward regarding it as a chronic inflammation of the cutis, superinducing degenerative and atrophic changes.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
General integrity could not exist, he held, without veracity as its basis; nor that basis exist without superinducing general integrity.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
A fact of such importance in the history of the human mind, might lead us to hope, that by superinducing different habits of thinking, the irregular associations would be corrected.
From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
The doctor who attended him—a very scientific man—informed me that the bullet entered the inner parallelogram of his diaphragmatic thorax, superinducing membranous hemorrhage in the outer cuticle of his basiliconthamaturgist.
From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 6: Artemus Ward's Panorama by Artemus Ward
Why he should have fallen so critically ill, cannot be judged with certainty, nor is it a question of importance; the superinducing cause probably lay in the nervous strain to which he was subjected.
From Camp-fire and Wigwam by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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