SUPERSEDED
SUPERSE'DED, participle passive Made void; rendered unnecessary or inefficacious; displaced; suspended.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SUPERSEDING
SUPERSE'DING, participle present tense Coming in the place of; setting aside; rendering useless; displacing; suspending.
SUPERSEDURE
SUPERSE'DURE, noun The act of superseding; as the supersedure of trial by jury. [New.]
SUPERSERVICEABLE
SUPERSERV'ICEABLE, adjective [super and serviceable.] Over officious; doing more than is required or desired. [Not in use.]
SUPERSTITION
SUPERSTI'TION, noun [Latin superstitio, supersto; super and sto, to stand.]1. Excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in...
SUPERSTITIONIST
SUPERSTI'TIONIST, noun One addicted to superstition.
SUPERSTITIOUS
SUPERSTI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin superstitiosus.]1. Over scrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full of idle fancies and scruples in regard to ...
SUPERSTITIOUSLY
SUPERSTI'TIOUSLY, adverb In a superstitious manner; with excessive regard to uncommanded rites or unessential opinions and forms in religion.1. With too much care; with excessiv...
SUPERSTITIOUSNESS
SUPERSTI'TIOUSNESS, noun Superstition.
SUPERSTRAIN
SUPERSTRA'IN, verb transitive [super and strain.] To overstrain or stretch. [Little used.]
SUPERSTRATUM
SUPERSTRA'TUM, noun [super and stratum.] A stratum or layer above another, or resting on something else.
SUPERSTRUCT
SUPERSTRUCT', verb transitive [Latin superstruo; super and struo, to lay.]To build upon; to erect.This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocence and then ...
SUPERSTRUCTION
SUPERSTRUC'TION, noun An edifice erected on something.My own profession hath taught me not to erect new super structions on an old ruin.
SUPERSTRUCTIVE
SUPERSTRUCT'IVE, adjective Built or erected on something else.
SUPERSTUCTURE
SUPERSTUCT'URE, noun Any structure or edifice built on something else; particularly, the building raised on a foundation. This word is used to distinguish what is erected on a w...
SUPERSUBSTANTIAL
SUPERSUBSTAN'TIAL, adjective [super and substantial.] More than substantial; being more than substance.
SUPERSULPHATE
SUPERSUL'PHATE, noun Sulphate with an excess of acid.
SUPERSULPHURETED
SUPERSUL'PHURETED, adjective Combined with an excess of sulphur.
SUPERTERRENE
SUPERTERRE'NE, adjective [super and terrene.] Being above ground, or above the earth.
SUPERTERRESTRIAL
SUPERTERRES'TRIAL, adjective Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth.
SUPERTONIC
SUPERTON'IC, noun In music, the note next above the key-note.
SUPERTRAGICAL
SUPERTRAG'ICAL, adjective Tragical to excess.
SUPERVACANEOUS
SUPERVACA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin supervacaneus; super and vaco, to make void.] Superfluous; unnecessary; needless; serving no purpose.
SUPERVACANEOUSLY
SUPERVACA'NEOUSLY, adverb Needlessly.
SUPERVACANEOUSNESS
SUPERVACA'NEOUSNESS, noun Needlessness.
SUPERVENE
SUPERVE'NE, verb intransitive [Latin supervenio; super and venio.]1. To come upon as something extraneous.Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter, unless impress...
SUPERVENIENT
SUPERVE'NIENT, adjective Coming upon as something additional or extraneous.That branch of belief was in him supervenient to christian practice.Divorces can be granted, a mensa e...