ˌsuperinˈduction
[ad. late L. superinductio, -iōnem, n. of action f. superindūcĕre to superinduce.]
The action, or an act, of superinducing.
† 1. (See superinduce 1 a, b.) Obs.
| 1626 Donne Serm., John xi. 21 (1640) 816 That that spirit might at his will..informe, and inanimate that dead body; God allowes no such Super-inductions, no such second Marriages upon such divorces by death. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. i. §36 No man in place of power or profit, loves to behold himself buried alive, by seeing his successour assigned unto him, which caused all Clergy-men to hate such superinductions. |
2. The action, or an act, of bringing in something additional; introduction over and above.
| 1641 Symonds Serm. bef. Ho. Comm. D j b, What super⁓inductions of evill upon evill have we had? a 1662 Heylin Laud ii. (1671) 258 St. Paul must needs be out in the Rules of Logick when he proved the Abrogating of the old Covenant by the superinduction of a new. 1670 Clarendon Ess. Tracts (1727) 140 The Superinduction of others for the Corroboration and Maintenance of Government. 1765 Blackstone Comm. i. x. 369 The subject is bound to his prince by an intrinsic allegiance, before the superinduction of those outward bonds of oath, homage and fealty. a 1779 Warburton Div. Legat. ix. Note A, Wks. 1788 III. 736 The futility of Mr. Locke's superinduction of the faculty of thinking to a system of Matter. 1817 Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xviii. (1907) II. 47 Existence..is distinguished from essence, by the superinduction of reality. 1854 Milman Lat. Christ. iv. ii. II. 44 The superinduction of an armed aristocracy in numbers comparatively small. 1882 Farrar Early Chr. I. 407 note, There takes place a cancelling of the previous commandment and a superinduction of a better hope. |
b. Sc. Law. Insertion of a word or letter in a document.
| 1693 Stair Inst. Law Scot. iv. xlii. §19 (ed. 2) 689 If the Writ appear to be Vitiate in substantialibus, by Deletion, Razing, or Superinduction of Letters and Words, which may alter the same. Ibid. 690. |
c. Something superinduced or adventitious; an (extraneous) addition.
| 1756 J. Clubbe Misc. Tracts, Hist. Wheatfield (1770) I. 78, I mean those superinductions in the progeny, which they derive, not by imitation, but from the very loins of their progenitors. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. vi. 263 To efface the superinductions of art that have smothered nature. |
3. The bringing or putting of some material thing over or upon another as a covering or addition.
| 1650 Fuller Pisgah iv. v. 98, I conceive this blackness no superinduction of a dark die on Davids clothes, but rather a dirty hue contracted..from neglect of washing them. 1733 Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. xix. 278 Superinductions of Earth are an Addition of more Ground, or changing it. 1785 Phillips Treat. Inland Nav. 23 The more easy will be the superinduction of manure upon lands in the vicinage of the Canal. 1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 342 A striking improvement of property is thus made, by the superinduction of a new soil. 1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle vii, There was an Italian painter, who obtained the name of Il Bragatore, by the superinduction of inexpressibles on the naked Apollos and Bacchuses of his betters. |
4. The action of inducing or bringing on. rare.
| a 1897 in H. L. Gordon Sir J. Simpson vii. 111 The superinduction of the anæsthetic state. |