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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It is only the romance, the adventure; and such moonlight nights often superinduce sentimentality.
From Hearts and Masks by MacGrath, Harold
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 Pearson, Francis B.
On a given body to generate or superinduce a new nature or natures, is the work and aim of human power....
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
Strangers at first find these artificial currents very apt to superinduce headache, until continued residence makes him regard the punkah as a most necessary article of furniture.
In the man, it may lower his vitality, cause irregular work, and superinduce a condition of despondency and readiness to give in.
From Broken Homes A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment by Colcord, Joanna C.
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Trollope, Anthony
Subsequently induced Structures After their accumulation, whether as stratified or eruptive masses, all kinds of rocks have been subject to various changes, and have acquired in consequence a variety of superinduced structures.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
The jacinth superinduced sleep and doubtless the strong suggestion of this supposed influence helped many sufferers from so-called insomnia to get sleep.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
The details of this subject will be found in separate articles descriptive of each of the technical terms applied to the several kinds of superinduced structures.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body; so that acts, which at first required a conscious effort, eventually became unconscious and mechanical.
From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Huxley, Thomas Henry
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 Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
Concussion of the brain, superinducing total mental aberration.
From Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
The doctor who attended him—a very scientific man—informed me that the bullet entered the parallelogram of his diaphragmatic thorax, superinducing hemorrhage in the outer cuticle of his basilicon thaumaturgist.
From Initial Studies in American Letters by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
It not only does this, but goes on committing great ravages on the whole nervous system, superinducing hypocondria, tremors, and premature decay of all the intellectual powers.
From A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco by Stuart, Moses
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