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Word Meanings - SUPERSTRUCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation. This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocency and then virtue. Dr. H. More. (more info) to build upon; super over + struere to build. See Super-, and

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  • SUPERFETE
    To conceive after a former conception. Howell.
  • SUPERCONCEPTION
    Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
  • SUPERFLUITY
    1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
  • SUPERNATURALNESS
    The quality or state of being supernatural.
  • SUPERCELESTIAL
    1. Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven. Waterland. 2. Higher than celestial; superangelic.
  • SUPERSTITIONIST
    One addicted to superstition. "Blind superstitionists." Dr. H. More.
  • SUPERREFLECTION
    The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
  • ERECT
    1. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc. 2. To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up;
  • SUPERMEDIAL
    Above the middle.
  • SUPERROYAL
    Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
  • SUPERSTRUCT
    To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation. This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocency and then virtue. Dr. H. More. (more info) to build upon; super over + struere to build. See Super-, and
  • SUPERFLUITANT
    Floating above or on the surface. Sir T. Browne. -- Su`per*flu"i*tance, n.
  • SUPERFINE
    1. Very fine, or most fine; being of surpassing fineness; of extra nice or fine quality; as, superfine cloth. 2. Excessively fine; too nice; over particular; as, superfine distinctions; superfine tastes.
  • SUPERACIDULATED
    Acidulated to excess.
  • FIRST
    Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
  • SUPERSTRUCTION
    1. The act of superstructing, or building upon. 2. That which id superstructed, or built upon some foundation; an edifice; a superstructure. My own profession hath taught me not to erect new superstructions upon an old ruin. Denham.
  • PROPER
    Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
  • FOUNDATION
    The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • SUPERSPINOUS
    Supraspinuos.
  • SUPERCRESCENT
    Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson.
  • SUPERTUBERATION
    The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.
  • SUPERLATION
    Exaltation of anything beyond truth or propriety. B. Jonson.

 

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