superinduce

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Scrabble points
16
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21
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈdjuːs/ (UK)
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/ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈdjuːs/ (UK) · /ˌsupɚɪnˈdus/

Definition of superinduce

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To replace (someone) with someone else; to bring into another's position; especially, to take (a second wife) quickly after the death of a first, or while she is still alive.
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verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To replace (someone) with someone else; to bring into another's position; especially, to take (a second wife) quickly after the death of a first, or while she is still alive.
  2. To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.
    “'Tis not for a Desultory Thought, to attone for a Lewd Course of Life; nor for any thing but the Super-inducing of a Virtuous Habit upon a Vicious One, to qualify an Effectual Conversion.”
    “The first time that a bill is handed you in reis, it takes the breath away, for it may easily run to several thousands, and the receiver wonders if his bank account can stand the strain of it. It has its compensation in the feeling of magnificence it superinduces, just as one feels richer after reading of a lakh of rupees.”
    “True martial discipline long continued superinduces in average man a sort of impulse of docility whose operation at the official sound of command much resembles in its promptitude the effect of an instinct.”
  3. To cause (especially further disease) in addition (to an existing medical condition).
    “Among the numerous train of maladies superinduced by that fatal and primary one which effected a revolution of so horrible a kind in the moral and physical being of my cousin, may be mentioned the most distressing and obstinate in its nature, a species of epilepsy not unfrequently terminating in trance itself [...].”
  4. To place over (something or someone); to cover.
    “So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation’s final day”

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Etymology

From late Latin superindūcere.

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