英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈdjuːs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsupɚɪnˈdus/

動詞

superinduce (三人称単数 現在形 superinduces, 現在分詞 superinducing, 過去形および過去分詞形 superinduced)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To replace (someone) with someone else; to bring into another's position; especially, to take (a second wife) quickly after the death of a first, or while she is still alive.
2. To bring in or introduce as an addition; to produce, cause, bring on.
   • 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man, Book Four, Chapter One, cited in Kenneth Borris (ed.), Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650, New York and London: Routledge, 2004, Chapter 3, p. 140,

     For this purpose Nature hath framed in both sexes parts and places fit for generation; beside an instinct of lust or desire, not inordinate such as by sin is superinduced in man, but natural residing in the exquisite sense of the obscene parts.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[A Supplement of Fables, out of Phædrus, Avienus, Camerarius, Neveletus, Apthethonius, Gabrias, Babrias, Abstemius, Alciatus, Boccalini, Baudoin, De la Fontaine, Æsope en Belle Humeur, Meslier, &c.] (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523, page 421:

     'Tis not for a Desultory Thought, to attone for a Lewd Course of Life; nor for any thing but the Super-inducing of a Virtuous Habit upon a Vicious One, to qualify an Effectual Conversion.

   • 1863, John Hill Burton, The Book-Hunter, etc. with additional notes by Richard Grant White, New York: Sheldon & Co., Part I, p. 106, footnote [1]

     […] I am sure that an author who writes English with so much clearness and idiomatic force, should he see this edition, will take in good part a kindly plea against the use of such a useless, overgrown pretender in our language as "superinduce." It is lamentably common, I must admit, and is becoming daily more so. But therefore all the more should we withstand it. Superinduce! why not, bring on? Is there a shade of meaning in the four syllables that there is not in the two? And yet I once heard a worthy woman who wished to be elegant, say of her husband, that he was "sufferin' very bad with bronchriches which were superinduced by excessive exposure." The truth and the English of which was that the good man had a cough brought on by getting very wet and cold.

   • 1920, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, A Brazilian Mystic: Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro, London: Heinemann, Chapter II, p. 64 (footnote), [2]

     Milrei, literally 1,000 reis. The coin equals a dollar, more or less. The first time that a bill is handed you in reis, it takes the breath away, for it may easily run to several thousands, and the receiver wonders if his bank account can stand the strain of it. It has its compensation in the feeling of magnificence it superinduces, just as one feels richer after reading of a lakh of rupees.

   • 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter 23.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, OCLC 639975898:

     True martial discipline long continued superinduces in average man a sort of impulse of docility whose operation at the official sound of command much resembles in its promptitude the effect of an instinct.

3. To cause (especially further disease) in addition (to an existing medical condition).
   • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘Berenice’, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Folio Society 2007, pp. 20-1:

     Among the numerous train of maladies superinduced by that fatal and primary one which effected a revolution of so horrible a kind in the moral and physical being of my cousin, may be mentioned the most distressing and obstinate in its nature, a species of epilepsy not unfrequently terminating in trance itself [...].

4. To place over (something または someone); to cover.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6:

     So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation’s final day