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 Harold MacGrath
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
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.
Why should the sun on the head superinduce visions of kobolds?
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
These, though strongly fortified, were easily taken, by reason of the inefficiency both of the commander and his troops, superinduced by the terror inspired by the very name of the pirates.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
He was a paralytic—the stroke was superinduced by a sunstroke in China, where he had labored heroically in a translation of the Bible into the Chinese language.
From My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt
He died, when he had just passed his 50th year, of dilation of the heart superinduced by intensive training.
From On the Trail of Deserters A Phenomenal Capture by Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter
Concussion of the brain, superinducing total mental aberration.
From Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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
And he grew technical, spoke of blood pressures taken, of traumatism superinducing prolonged coma, of this and that which made no impression on the banker.
From The Bells of San Juan by Jackson Gregory
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
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
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