superjacent
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of superjacent
1600–10; < Latin superjacent- (stem of superjacēns ), present participle of superjacēre to rest upon. See super-, subjacent
Example Sentences
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Village streets threaded around the hillside, eternally watched over by the superjacent castle.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2011
And was it not possible, in the second place, that he had not sufficiently heated his infusions and the superjacent air?
From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry
The superjacent skin is tense and glistening, and the surrounding veins are more or less distended.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
We must not think, however, that all earth containing this ferment is capable of poisoning the superjacent atmosphere.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
Steam is used partly to soften the membranes, but principally to increase the secretion from the mucous membrane, and thereby throw off the superjacent membrane.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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