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
The way to render human beings of any class despicable is to undervalue them; for disesteem will superinduce degeneracy.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox
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
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
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
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
From Time Magazine Archive
A feeling caused by external impressions, or superinduced by a disposition of the body.
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden
"The rational life is united with and superinduced upon all these."
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
It is not involved in the nature of the subject itself, but is superinduced on the latter by reason of some real foundation really distinct from the nature of this subject.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
These are proclivities superinduced by modern conditions of the conscience.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
The being chained, as it were, to one intellect in the perusal straight on of any large book, is a sort of mental slavery superinducing imbecility.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton
Apparently he would have preferred to watch her dark downcast eyelashes in silence under sanction of his air of abstract meditation and the melancholy superinducing it.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
Alfonso's doctors had killed him at last by superinducing a habit of medicine-taking, which defeated its purpose.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Torquato Tasso
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
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