1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Alphabet. Dict. in Ess. Real Char. sig. Qqq3^v/3 Superinducing, again-marrying of married person.

1728 Bp. P. Browne Procedure Human Understanding ii. ii. 169 The superinducing of it [sc. the process of thinking] upon mere Matter.

1852 A. Alison Life John Duke of Marlborough (ed. 2) I. iii. 171 This brave body of veterans, who had become admirable troops from the superinducing of French discipline and guidance on native Irish valor.

1870 T. H. Huxley in Macmillan's Mag. May 77/1 Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

1998 P. Dear et al. in D. Garber & M. Ayers Cambr. Hist. 17th-Cent. Philos. (2003) I. vii. 156 [Bacon believed that] gold..was nothing more than a concatenation of the appropriate simple natures, and could be made..by the superinducing of those natures onto matter.

1797 Analyt. Rev. Mar. 324 The superinducing motives of private ambition..can alone induce men to represent our country..as in a declining condition.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 595 Superinducing tumours and congestions have been found in the neck.

1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 196 The super-inducing influence of the current.

1922 Rep. Supreme Court Missouri 289 76 The superinducing and proximate cause of the pneumonia and his subsequent death therefrom was the negligence of the railroad company in failing to provide a safe engine.