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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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 MacDonald, George
You cannot close your shutters and light your candles; that in the tone of mind which circumstances superinduce would be brutality.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander
Why should the sun on the head superinduce visions of kobolds?
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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 Howells, William Dean
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)
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
From Time Magazine Archive
It resembled thus the heterogeneous furniture of his own mind, with an incongruous ingredient of superinduced religion; but, on the whole, unpresentable and unclean.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
Again, the original need of miraculous action springs from the moral darkness superinduced by the Fall, which the Incarnation repairs.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
The habits which this conviction had superinduced no doubt influenced me when I decided on placing Balmat's thermometer on the summit of Mont Blanc.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
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)
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
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
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
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
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