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ˌsuperinˈduce, v.
[ad. late L. superindūcĕre to cover over, bring upon, add, f. super- super- 2, 13 + indūcĕre to induce.]
1. trans. To bring (a person) into some position in addition to, or so as to displace, one who already occupies it.
a. To take (a second wife) within the lifetime of the first (or, by extension, shortly after her death); also, to bring (the child of another wife) into the inheritance in preference to the former heir. Obs. or arch.
Cf. med.L. superinducta ‘mulier extranea, concubina.
c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 73 It was plain adultery to superinduce any other wife, his former living. 1626Donne Serm., John xiv. 2 (1640) 740 And when we have Primogenitum Ecclesiæ, The eldest son by the Primitive Church, The Creed of the Apostles, they will super-induce another son by another venter,..and..make their Trent-Creed larger then the Apostles. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. xix. 5 Thou shalt not superinduce one wife to another. 1650Jer. Taylor Funeral Serm. C'tess Carbery Wks. 1831 IV. 108 When Pompey saw the ghost of his first lady, Julia, who vexed his rest and his conscience, for superinducing Cornelia on her bed within the ten months of mourning. 1855Milman Lat. Christ. ix. iv. IV. 65 The King is to be warned that.., as he cannot have legitimate offspring by her whom he has superinduced, his kingdom would pass to strangers.
b. To appoint (a person) to an office over the head of another; = superinduct. Obs. or arch.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. v. §374 When the fleet was commanded by sir John Pennington, before the earl of Warwick was superinduced into that charge against the King's will. 1904M. Hewlett Queen's Quair ii. ix. 307 Upon such a crisis, intending for the best, Mary Beaton superinduced a stout,..gamesome lady, her aunt.
2. To bring in over and above, or ‘on the top of’, something already present; to introduce in addition (esp. something extraneous). Const. on, upon (rarely to, into).
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. To the King §13 The Anoyntment of God superinduceth a Brotherhood in Kings & Bishops. Ibid. ii. vii. §6 Whosoeuer knoweth any forme knoweth the vtmost possibilitie of superinducing that Nature vpon any varietie of Matter. 1651Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. iii. 32 Death brought in by sin, was nothing superinduced to man. 1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 174 It is not like that Christ would superinduce any new establishment to former Rights. 1676Grew Musæum, Anat. Stomach & Guts vii. 29 Another Ferment superinduc'd to that of the Stomach. 1767Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) IX. i. 207 Nor did she superinduce the least heat into her humours. 1791Boswell Johnson 26 Mar. 1776, His size, and figure, and countenance, and manner, were that of a hearty English 'Squire, with the parson super-induced. 1814Chalmers Evid. Chr. Revel. v. (ed. 3) 156 He superinduces his own testimony to that of the original writers. 1854Milman Lat. Christ. i. i. I. 30 note, Westward the old Punic language prevailed, even where the Roman conquerors had superinduced Latin. 1860Mill Repr. Govt. (1865) 16/1 Their improvement cannot come from themselves, but must be superinduced from without. 1874Lubbock Mod. Savages in Manch. Sci. Lect. Ser. v. & vi. 248 The savage does not abandon his belief in Fetichism..but he superinduces on it a belief in beings of a higher..material nature. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. vi. 295 The form of unity superinduced on the matter of the ideas connected.
3. To bring or cause to come upon a person or thing; to bring on, induce; esp. to induce (a disease, etc.) in addition to one already existing.
1615Crooke Body of Man 200 An instinct of lust or desire, not inordinate such as by sinne is super-induced in man, but natural. 1687Rycaut Hist. Turks II. 223 Opium being taken..in a small quantity, about the bigness of a Tare, superinduces at first a strange chearfulness about the heart. 1749Hartley Observ. Man ii. ii. 107 That State of our Waters, which was superinduced at the Deluge, may be the Cause of the Rainbow. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 539 Whether it was merely sufficient to remove the direct debility, or whether in such large doses as to superinduce the indirect. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 581 It [sc. idiopathic cough] has often proved highly dangerous in its results, by superinducing peripneumony. 1859Meredith R. Feverel xxiii, A..physician who has..overlooked the change in the disease superinduced by one false dose. 1889Science-Gossip XXV. 208 That the tremendous mechanical energies which..metamorphosed the archæan gneiss..was [sic] quite sufficiently potent to superinduce the semblance of bedding on the bright red Cambrian grit mountains.
b. loosely for: To induce.
1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall i, The alacrity with which he sprang from the vehicle superinduced a distortion of his ankle. 1884J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 118 The water of the White Nile is supposed to superinduce dysentery.
4. In physical sense: To bring, draw, deposit, etc. over or upon a thing as a covering or addition.
1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 262 Superinducing an Apes skin over his humane shape. a1661Fuller Worthies, Suffolk (1662) iii. 67 For some boggled much thereat as false Heraldry in Devotion, to super-induce a Doctoral hood over a Friers Coul. 1709T. Robinson Nat. Hist. Westm. & Cumberl. vii. 46 The West side, or Skirts of these Mountains..seems to be Earth superinduced upon the Mountain-Strata by the general Flood. 1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 283 A black peaty stratum, superinduced with morass or red bog. 1865Mill Exam. Hamilton xiii. 239 One [colour] may limit another by being superinduced partially over it.
5. To induce or persuade in addition. nonce-use.
1790Bystander 248 He was super-induced to grant it by the many..handsome things Phocion had just been saying of his dear sister.
Hence superinducing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1668Wilkins Real Char., Dict., Superinducing, again-marrying of married person. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) IV. 630 Superinducing tumours and congestions have been found in the neck. 1849Noad Electricity (ed. 3) 196 The super-inducing influence of the current. |