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Superinduce
Definitions
- 1 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. obsolete, transitive
- 2 To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.
"1615, Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man, Book Four, Chapter One, cited in Kenneth Borris (ed.), Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650, New York and London: Routledge, 2004, Chapter 3, p. 140, For this purpose Nature hath framed in both sexes parts and places fit for generation; beside an instinct of lust or desire, not inordinate such as by sin is superinduced in man, but natural residing in the exquisite sense of the obscene parts."
- 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"
Etymology
From late Latin superindūcere.
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