What does "superinduce" mean?
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.
Superinduce
/ˌsupɚɪnˈdus/ verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: 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.
- Grammar: superinduce is listed as verb.
- Nearest alternatives: bring, bring on, call forth, contrive.
- Usage evidence: 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.
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Definitions
Verb
- 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"
Synonyms
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"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."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "superinduce"?
Common synonyms include: bring, bring on, call forth, contrive, draw on, effect.
How do you use "superinduce" in a sentence?
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.
How do you pronounce "superinduce"?
Pronounced /ˌsupɚɪnˈdus/.
Etymology
From late Latin superindūcere.