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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The seed-stones, however, contained in the dark pulpy berry, are poisonous to man, and superinduce apoplectic symptoms.
From A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Butler, Samuel
It always aggravates, irritates, and, furthermore, helps superinduce the evil the worrier is afraid of.
From Quit Your Worrying! by James, George Wharton
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
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 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
The historian's business is similar—to superinduce upon events the charm of order, and set them forth in the most lucid fashion he can manage.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
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Together with this superinduced cleavage there have been developed in them minute hairs, scales and rudimentary crystals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
"Brain fever," said the wiseacres about the post, "superinduced by sunstroke abroad and scandal at home."
From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles
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 Hunt, Eleonora
A feeling caused by external impressions, or superinduced by a disposition of the body.
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von
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 Ellis, Edward Sylvester
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 Ward, Artemus
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 Huxley, T. H.
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 Meredith, George
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 Burton, John Hill
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