superincumbent
Americanadjective
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lying or resting on something else.
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situated above; overhanging.
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exerted from above, as pressure.
adjective
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lying or being on top of something else
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situated or suspended above; overhanging
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Etymology
Origin of superincumbent
1655–65; < Latin superincumbent- (stem of superincumbēns ), present participle of superincumbere to lean over; see super-, incumbent
Example Sentences
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Yet these are hidden beneath a superincumbent mass of trivialities.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
The internal pilasters, which form an architrave for the northern window, spring from grotesque heads, elaborately carved, and which appear as if pressed down by the superincumbent weight.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
These granitic masses have upheaved the superincumbent beds of stratified rocks, partly melting them.
From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Hydrobarometer, hī-dro-ba-rom′e-ter, n. an instrument for determining the depth of the sea by the pressure of the superincumbent water.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
But grasping is not so easy; or rather it is not so easy to pull a fish up through two feet of superincumbent water which opposes the quick passage of the arm.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard
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