[-MENT.] The action or an act of superinducing, something superinduced.
1637. Reynolds, Serm. preached 12 July, 7. Some [Truths] are de fide, against those who deny Fundamentals. Others circa fidem, against those who by perilous superinducements bruize and wrench the foundation.
1698. Locke, 3rd Let. to Bp. of Worcester (1699), 400. In all such Cases the superinducement of greater Perfections … destroys nothing of the Essence or Perfections that were there before.
1704. Norris, Ideal World, II. i. 53. The supposition … that the superinducement of any perfection not contained in the idea of matter, should of necessity alter the species of it.
1832. Chalmers, Pol. Econ., vi. 177. The foreign trade is a superinducement on the home.
1844. N. Brit. Rev., I. 92. To imagine that any such accession of wealth … would accrue to our country by the superinducement of an extrinsic population.
