Word Meanings - SUPERSTRUCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation. This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocency and then virtue. Dr. H. More. (more info) to build upon; super over + struere to build. See Super-, and

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• SUPERFETE
  To conceive after a former conception. Howell.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPERCELESTIAL
  1. Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven. Waterland. 2. Higher than celestial; superangelic.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• SUPERSTITIONIST
  One addicted to superstition. "Blind superstitionists." Dr. H. More.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• ERECT
  1. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc. 2. To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up;
• SUPERMEDIAL
  Above the middle.
• SUPERROYAL
  Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
• SUPERSTRUCT
  To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation. This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocency and then virtue. Dr. H. More. (more info) to build upon; super over + struere to build. See Super-, and
• SUPERFLUITANT
  Floating above or on the surface. Sir T. Browne. -- Su`per*flu"i*tance, n.
• SUPERFINE
  1. Very fine, or most fine; being of surpassing fineness; of extra nice or fine quality; as, superfine cloth. 2. Excessively fine; too nice; over particular; as, superfine distinctions; superfine tastes.
• SUPERACIDULATED
  Acidulated to excess.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• SUPERSTRUCTION
  1. The act of superstructing, or building upon. 2. That which id superstructed, or built upon some foundation; an edifice; a superstructure. My own profession hath taught me not to erect new superstructions upon an old ruin. Denham.
• PROPER
  Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• SUPERSPINOUS
  Supraspinuos.
• SUPERCRESCENT
  Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson.
• SUPERTUBERATION
  The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.
• SUPERLATION
  Exaltation of anything beyond truth or propriety. B. Jonson.