[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-nen 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 superinductions 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. Mary Wollstonecr., Rights Wom., vi. 263. To efface the superinductions of art that lave 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. 93. 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. J. Phillips, Treat. Inland Navig., 23. The more easy will be the superinduction of manure upon lands in the vicinage of the Canal.
1827. 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.
