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
Other Word Forms
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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Each too had its label of stone superincumbent, and projecting from the brick-work, which might leave the period of construction somewhat doubtful—but the gables decided the fact.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 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
It was buried up in a mass of superincumbent ruins, and was only brought to light in the course of my laborious excavations.
From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.
Elsewhere he accounts for the diminished pressure on the top of a mountain by the diminished weight of the superincumbent column of air.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William
But Sir Gilbert Scott thought that if a bit of the superincumbent stone was raised, some portion of the more ancient monument might exist beneath.
From The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History by Kingsley, Rose Georgina
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