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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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
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 Thomas, Calvin
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
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)
Seeing life large.—The bigness of her spirit and her ability to see and feel life in the large superinduce dignity, poise, and serenity.
From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this condition may be superinduced by other means than these.
From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.
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 Alcott, Amos Bronson
"The rational life is united with and superinduced upon all these."
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.
Subsequently induced Structures After their accumulation, whether as stratified or eruptive masses, all kinds of rocks have been subject to various changes, and have acquired in consequence a variety of superinduced structures.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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
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 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
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
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 Gregory, Jackson
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