superinducementn.
/ˌsuːp(ə)rᵻnˈdjuːsm(ə)nt/, /ˌsuːp(ə)rᵻnˈdʒuːsm(ə)nt/, /ˌsjuːp(ə)rᵻnˈdjuːsm(ə)nt/, /ˌsjuːp(ə)rᵻnˈdʒuːsm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌsupərᵻnˈd(j)usm(ə)nt/ Now rare.
The action or an act of superinducing (in various senses of the verb); addition of something. Also: a thing superinduced or added on to or upon something else.Occasionally: additional or further inducement.
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1631 E. Reynolds Three Treat. 122 The papists in their contentions for trash..and superinducements upon the pretious foundation.
1638 E. Reynolds Serm. Peace Church 7 Some [Truths] are de fide, against those who deny Fundamentals. Others circa fidem, against those who by perilous superinducements bruize and wrench the foundation.
1699 J. Locke Reply to Bishop of Worcester's Answer to 2nd Let. 400 In all such Cases, the superinducement of greater Perfections..destroys nothing of the Essence or Perfections that were there before.
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. i. 53 The supposition..that the superinducement of any perfection not contained in the idea of matter, should of necessity alter the species of it.
1758 Things as they Are 77 The Hanoverians scarcely needed the super-inducement of British pay to take the advantage of their enemy's actual condition.
1832 T. Chalmers On Polit. Econ. vi. 177 The foreign trade is a superinducement on the home.
1844 N. Brit. Rev. 1 92 To imagine that any such accession of wealth..would accrue to our country by the superinducement of an extrinsic population.
1895 Med. Rev. (St. Louis) 9 Nov. 354/1 The true death rate from fibroids is much greater than is apparent..[from the] direct and positive superinducement of other diseases given as causing death.
1997 R. Bradbury Quicker than Eye 12 With the superinducement of a half-million dollars, he..easily sold a bad book.
2010 R. A. Richards Species Probl. v. 131 Eventually these concepts all get colligated by the superinducement of another, more inclusive concept.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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