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
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No water can percolate athwart it, and consequently where it is, there the superincumbent soil is resolved into a quagmire.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
A considerable growth of trees had sprung from the soil collected above them, the roots of some having penetrated completely through the superincumbent shells to the earth beneath.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
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
The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
From Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
This, we know, is owing to the weight of the superincumbent atmosphere, there being a heavier burden at the surface than at any height above it.
From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by W. H. (William Henry) Rhodes
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