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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of superinduce.

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Examples

  • Whilst rain is wholesome for most fishes, it is, on the contrary, unwholesome for the mullet, the cephalus, and the so-called marinus, for rain superinduces blindness in most of these fishes, and all the more rapidly if the rainfall be superabundant.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • The best food for rearing and fattening pigs is chickpeas and figs, but the one thing essential is to vary the food as much as possible, for this animal, like animals in general lights in a change of diet; and it is said that one kind of food blows the animal out, that another superinduces flesh, and that another puts on fat, and that acorns, though liked by the animal, render the flesh flaccid.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • A piece of a dead man's bone pulverized and put into the food, even into the betel-nut quid, is said to have the same effect but in a more expeditious way, as it superinduces death within a few months.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • This process superinduces another favourite theme of eulogium -- namely, the unparalleled hue and tone (of colour) imparted by the old Italian varnish -- a hue, he is sure to inform you, which it is impossible to imitate by any modern nostrums -- _twang_.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • True martial discipline long continued superinduces in average man a sort of impulse of docility whose operation at the official sound of command much resembles in its promptitude the effect of an instinct.

    Billy Budd 1924

  • The historian ‘superinduces upon events the charm of order.

    I. Inaugural 1916

  • Which superinduces the other is a question for pathology.

    Ponkapog Papers. 1904

  • But their sanctification, being external to their substance, superinduces their perfection through the communion of the Spirit.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Mesopotamia again, and so the family history of the Hebrew tribes superinduces at odd times a reference to the old settlements on the

    The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

  • Which superinduces the other is a question for pathology.

    Ponkapog Papers Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

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