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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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
It is only the romance, the adventure; and such moonlight nights often superinduce sentimentality.
From Hearts and Masks by Harold MacGrath
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
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 F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
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
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
With instinct there may be an embryo, but sense must be superinduced to constitute an animal—memory, moral sentiment, reason, imagination, personality, to constitute the man.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
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
They present in addition other structures which have been superinduced upon them, and which they share with the unstratified or igneous rocks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body; so that acts, which at first required a conscious effort, eventually became unconscious and mechanical.
From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Thomas Henry Huxley
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
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
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
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
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