superduce

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

superduce (third-person singular simple present superduces, present participle superducing, simple past and past participle superduced)

  1. (rare) to superinduce
    • 1787, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, The Federalist Papers, page 328:
      Their will has had no part in the matter but that of meeting the necessities of the moment by the contrivances of the moment, which contrivances, if in sufficient conformity to the national feelings and character, commonly last, and by successive aggregation constitute a polity, suited to the people who possess it, but which it would be vain to attempt to superduce upon any people whose nature and circumstances had not spontaneously evolved it.
    • 1846, Social Influences; or Villiers. [Signed, Proteus.], Vol. 2, page 131:
      Two opposite states superduce the same passioning—sadness of emotion, satedness of enjoyment, weariness of thought.
    • 1869, A Vindication of the law prohibiting Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister, page 51:
      [] As Augustine therefore believed that to superduce a second wife, was to take a second wife whilst the first was still alive []

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

superdūce

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of superdūcō