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
Children should never be accused of obstinacy; the accusation cannot cure, but may superinduce the disease.
From Practical Education, Volume I by Maria Edgeworth
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 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 Samuel Butler
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
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
Priests, renowned for the sanctity of their lives, applied in the same breath for a white head-dress, and for a remedy against disorders superinduced “by eating the flesh of partridges.”
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
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
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 Edward Sylvester Ellis
Concussion of the brain, superinducing total mental aberration.
From Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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
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
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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