v. [ad. late L. superindūcĕre to cover over, bring upon, add, f. super- SUPER- 2, 13 + indūcĕre to INDUCE.]
1. trans. To bring (a person) into some position in addition to, or so as to displace, one who already occupies it. a. To take (a second wife) within the lifetime of the first (or, by extension, shortly after her death); also, to bring (the child of another wife) into the inheritance in preference to the former heir. Obs. or arch.
Cf. med.L. superinducta ‘mulier extranea, concubina.’
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (Camden), 73. It was plain adultery to superinduce any other wife, his former living.
1626. Donne, Serm., John. xiv. 2 (1640), 740. And when we have Primogenitum Ecclesiæ, The eldest son by the Primitive Church, The Creed of the Apostles, they will super-induce another son by another venter,… and … make their Trent-Creed larger then the Apostles.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Matt. xix. 5. Thou shalt not superinduce one wife to another.
1650. Jer. Taylor, Funeral Serm. C’tess Carbery, Wks. 1831, IV. 108. When Pompey saw the ghost of his first lady, Julia, who vexed his rest and his conscience, for superinducing Cornelia on her bed within the ten months of mourning.
1855. Milman, Lat. Christ., IX. iv. IV. 65. The King is to be warned that…, as he cannot have legitimate offspring by her whom he has superinduced, his kingdom would pass to strangers.
b. To appoint (a person) to an office over the head of another; = SUPERINDUCT. Obs. or arch.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., V. § 374. When the fleet was commanded by sir John Pennington, before the earl of Warwick was superinduced into that charge against the King’s will.
1904. M. Hewlett, Queen’s Quair, II. ix. 307. Upon such a crisis, intending for the best, Mary Beaton superinduced a stout,… gamesome lady, her aunt.
2. To bring in over and above, or ‘on the top of,’ something already present; to introduce in addition (esp. something extraneous). Const. on, upon (rarely to, into).
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. To the King § 13. The Anoyntment of God superinduceth a Brotherhood in Kings & Bishops. Ibid., II. vii. § 6. Whosoeuer knoweth any forme knoweth the vtmost possibilitie of superinducing that Nature vpon any varietie of Matter.
1651. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, I. iii. 32. Death brought in by sin, was nothing superinduced to man.
1659. H. L’Estrange, Alliance Div. Off., 174. It is not like that Christ would superinduce any new establishment to former Rights.
1676. Grew, Musæum, Anat. Stomach & Guts, vii. 29. Another Ferment superinduc’d to that of the Stomach.
1767. Sterne, Tr. Shandy (1802), IX. i. 207. Nor did she superinduce the least heat into her humours.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, 26 March 1776. His size, and figure, and countenance, and manner, were that of a hearty English ’Squire, with the parson super-induced.
1814. Chalmers, Evid. Chr. Revel., v. (ed. 3), 156. He superinduces his own testimony to that of the original writers.
1854. Milman, Lat. Christ., I. i. I. 30, note. Westward the old Punic language prevailed, even where the Roman conquerors had superinduced Latin.
1860. Mill, Repr. Govt. (1865), 16/1. Their improvement cannot come from themselves, but must be superinduced from without.
1874. Lubbock, Mod. Savages, in Manch. Sci. Lect., Ser. v. & vi. 248. The savage does not abandon his belief in Fetichism … but he superinduces on it a belief in beings of a higher … material nature.
1877. E. Caird, Philos. Kant, II. vi. 295. The form of unity superinduced on the matter of the ideas connected.
3. To bring or cause to come upon a person or thing; to bring on, induce; esp. to induce (a disease, etc.) in addition to one already existing.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 200. An instinct of lust or desire, not inordinate such as by sinne is super-induced in man, but natural.
1687. Rycaut, Hist. Turks, II. 223. Opium being taken … in a small quantity, about the bigness of a Tare, superinduces at first a strange chearfulness about the heart.
1749. Hartley, Observ. Man, II. ii. 107. That State of our Waters, which was superinduced at the Deluge, may be the Cause of the Rainbow.
1803. Med. Jrnl., X. 539. Whether it was merely sufficient to remove the direct debility, or whether in such large doses as to superinduce the indirect.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 581. It [sc. idiopathic cough] has often proved highly dangerous in its results, by superinducing peripneumony.
1859. Meredith, R. Feverel, xxiii. A … physician who has … overlooked the change in the disease superinduced by one false dose.
1889. Science-Gossip, XXV. 208. That the tremendous mechanical energies which … metamorphosed the archæan gneiss … was [sic] quite sufficiently potent to superinduce the semblance of bedding on the bright red Cambrian grit mountains.
b. loosely for: To induce.
1816. T. L. Peacock, Headlong Hall, i, The alacrity with which he sprang from the vehicle superinduced a distortion of his ankle.
1884. J. Colborne, Hicks Pasha, 118. The water of the White Nile is supposed to superinduce dysentery.
4. In physical sense: To bring, draw, deposit, etc., over or upon a thing as a covering or addition.
1660. F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., 262. Superinducing an Apes skin over his humane shape.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Suffolk (1662), III. 67. For some boggled much thereat as false Heraldry in Devotion, to super-induce a Doctoral hood over a Friers Coul.
1709. T. Robinson, Nat. Hist. Westm. & Cumberl., vii. 46. The West side, or Skirts of these Mountains … seems to be Earth superinduced upon the Mountain-Strata by the general Flood.
1813. Vancouver, Agric. Devon, 283. A black peaty stratum, superinduced with morass or red bog.
1865. Mill, Exam. Hamilton, xiii. 239. One [colour] may limit another by being superinduced partially over it.
5. To induce or persuade in addition. nonce-use.
1790. Bystander, 248. He was super-induced to grant it by the many … handsome things Phocion had just been saying of his dear sister.
Hence Superinducing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., Dict., Superinducing, again-marrying of married person.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), IV. 630. Superinducing tumours and congestions have been found in the neck.
1849. Noad, Electricity (ed. 3), 196. The super-inducing influence of the current.
