Word Meanings - SUPERSTRATUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stratum, or layer, above another. (more info) supersternere, superstratum, to spread upon. See Super-, and

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• SUPERFETE
  To conceive after a former conception. Howell.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• 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.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• SUPERCELESTIAL
  1. Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven. Waterland. 2. Higher than celestial; superangelic.
• SUPERSTITIONIST
  One addicted to superstition. "Blind superstitionists." Dr. H. More.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• 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.
• STRATUM
  A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively. 2. A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
• 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.
• 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.
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.