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
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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 Rose Georgina Kingsley
With kites, however, the possibility of making frequent and nearly vertical ascents and descents permits observations to be obtained almost simultaneously in superincumbent strata of air.
From Sounding the Ocean of Air by A. Lawrence Rotch
The levee of her commercial emporium literally trembles, in a frontage of nine miles, beneath the superincumbent masses of merchandise.
From The Slavery Question Speech of Hon. John M. Landrum, of La., Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 27, 1860 by John M. Landrum
The priests—the worshippers, where were they? sleeping beneath the ruins of the crumbling chancel; their high or holy names, which no man remembers, carved deep in the superincumbent marble.
From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
As the meal progressed, the superincumbent earth weighed less heavily on their souls.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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