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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But there was something further to complicate matters, and superinduce sickness in a delicate girl.
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
What really takes place, is, I conceive, more philosophically expressed by the common word Comparison, than by the phrases "to connect" or "to superinduce."
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
It is only the romance, the adventure; and such moonlight nights often superinduce sentimentality.
From Hearts and Masks by Harold MacGrath
As for the general mass, their piquancy is not so great as to superinduce in the reader of to-day a dangerously violent cachinnation.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
Because I have made up my mind not to superinduce any condition of whose laws I am so very partially informed.
From David Elginbrod by George MacDonald
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
We have spoken above of the spiritual person as diverse from, superior to, and superinduced upon, the animal nature.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
His conclusion was, that some of the qualities which made his host so "out of place" were natural, and that others had been superinduced upon these by his English education.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
Even there the same changes are, perhaps, superinduced to a certain extent by the return of winter and summer.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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 Moses Stuart
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 Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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
Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body; so that acts, which at first required a conscious effort, eventually became unconscious and mechanical.
From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by T. H. Huxley
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
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