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 is only the romance, the adventure; and such moonlight nights often superinduce sentimentality.
From Hearts and Masks by MacGrath, Harold
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
It always aggravates, irritates, and, furthermore, helps superinduce the evil the worrier is afraid of.
From Quit Your Worrying! by James, George Wharton
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 Cox, Francis Augustus
Without this superinduced publicity, they say, the idea would never have got where it did.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the changes superinduced by man, none appear, at first sight, more remarkable than the perfect tameness of certain domestic races.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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
Life, as we have seen, is not the offspring of protoplasm, but something which has been superinduced upon, and may be separated from, the protoplasm that serves as its material basis.
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas
His death was superinduced by a severe fall, sustained by him several weeks before.
From Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Whitney, Orson F.
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 Tasso, Torquato
General integrity could not exist, he held, without veracity as its basis; nor that basis exist without superinducing general integrity.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
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 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
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
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