Superinduce
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈdjuːs/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Superinduce is a verb meaning To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.
Meaning
To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.
More Meanings
- To cause (especially further disease) in addition (to an existing medical condition).
- To place over (something or someone); to cover.
- (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.
Example Sentences
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
'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.
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.
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 [...].
Word Forms
- superinduces
- superinducing
- superinduced
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include superinduct, supersede, surrogate, induce, induct, replace.
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