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superinduce

UK/ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈdjuːs/US/ˌsupɚɪnˈdus/

superinduce verb: 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.

Verb

superinduce (third-person singular simple present superinduces, present participle superinducing, simple past and past participle superinduced)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) 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.
  2. To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.
    • 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.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...
    • 'Tis not for a Desultory Thought, to attone for a Lewd Course of Life; nor for any thing but the Super-inducing of a Virtuous Habit upon a Vicious One, to qualify an Effectual Conversion.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[A Supplement of Fables […].] (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […]...
  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...1835, Edgar Allan Poe, “Berenice”, in Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Folio Society, published 2007, pages 20–1
  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 day1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6

Forms of superinduce

third-person singular presentsuperinduces
present participlesuperinducing
past participlesuperinduced
pastsuperinduced

Origin of superinduce

From late Latin superindūcere.

Questions about superinduce

What does superinduce mean?
Superinduce means 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.
What part of speech is superinduce?
Superinduce is a verb.
How do you pronounce superinduce?
Superinduce is pronounced /ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈdjuːs/ (UK).
What is the past tense of superinduce?
The past tense of superinduce is superinduced.

Words near superinduce in the dictionary

  1. superindividual
  2. superindividualism
  3. superindividualist
  4. superindividualistic
  5. superindividualists
  6. superinduce
  7. superinduced
  8. superinducement
  9. superinducements
  10. superinduces
  11. superinducing

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