Suit – Supernatural

Suit

SUIT, noun [Latin sequor.] See Seek. In Law Latin, secta is from the same source.] Literally, a following; and so used in the old English statutes.

1. Consecution; succession; series; regular order; as the same kind and suit of weather. [Not now so applied.]

2. A set; a number of things used together, and in a degree necessary to be united, in order to answer the purpose; as a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; sometimes with less dependence of the particular parts on each other, but still united in use; as a suit of clothes; a suit of apartments.

3. A set of the same kind or stamp, as a suit of cards.

4. Retinue; a company or number of attendants or followers; attendance; train; as a nobleman and his suit [This is sometimes pronounced as a French word, sweet; but in all its senses, this is the same word, and the affectation of making it French in one use and English in another, is improper, not to say ridiculous.]

5. A petition; a seeking for something by petition or application.

Many shall make suit to thee. Job 11:19.

6. Solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.

7. In law, an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.

In England, the several suits or remedial instruments of justice, are distinguished into three kinds, actions personal, real, and mixed.

8. Pursuit; prosecution; chase.

SUIT and service, in feudal law, the duty of feudatories to attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of peace, and in war, to follow them and perform military service.

To bring suit a phrase in law, denoting literally to bring secta, followers or witnesses to prove the plaintif's demand. The phrase is antiquated, or rather it has changed its signification; for to bring a suit now is to institute an action.

Out of suits, having no correspondence.

SUIT-covenant, in law, is a covenant to sue at a certain court.

SUIT-court, in law, the court in which tenants owe attendance to their lord.

SUIT, verb transitive To fit; to adapt; to make proper. suit the action to the word. suit the gestures to the passion to be expressed. suit the style to the subject.

1. To become; to be fitted to.

Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.

Raise her notes to that sublime degree,

Which suits a song of piety and thee.

2. To dress; to clothe.

Such a Sebastian was by brother too,

So went he suited to his watery tomb.

3. To please; to make content. He is well suited with his place.

SUIT, verb intransitive To agree; to accord; as, to suit with; to suit to. Pity suits with a noble nature.

Give me not an office

That suits with me so ill--

The place itself was suiting to his care.

[The use of with, after suit is now most frequent.]

Suitable

SUITABLE, adjective Fitting; according with; agreeable to; proper; becoming; as ornaments suitable to one's character and station; language suitable to the subject.

1. Adequate. We cannot make suitable returns for divine mercies.

Suitableness

SUITABLENESS, noun Fitness; propriety; agreeableness; a state of being adapted or accommodated. Consider the laws, and their suitableness to our moral state.

Suitably

SUITABLY, adverb Fitly; agreeably; with propriety. Let words be suitably applied.

Suited

SUITED, participle passive Fitted; adapted; pleased.

Suiting

SUITING, participle present tense Fitting; according with; becoming; pleasing.

Suitor

SUITOR, noun One that sues or prosecutes a demand of right in law, as a plaintiff, petitioner or appellant.

1. One who attends a court, whether plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror and the like. These, in legal phraseology, are all included in the word suitors.

2. A petitioner; an applicant.

She hath been a suitor to me for her brother.

3. One who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.

Suitress

SUITRESS, noun A female supplicant.

Sulcate

SUL'CATE

SUL'CATED, adjective [Latin sulcus, a furrow.] In botany, furrowed; grooved; scored with deep broad channels longitudinally; as a sulcated stem.

Sulcated

SUL'CATED, a. [L. sulcus, a furrow.] In botany, furrowed; grooved; scored with deep broad channels longitudinally; as a sulcated stem.

Sulkiness

SUL'KINESS, noun [from sulky.] Sullenness; sourness; moroseness.

Sulky

SUL'KY, adjective Sullen; sour; heavy; obstinate; morose.

While these animals remain in their inclosures, they are sulky

SUL'KY, noun A carriage for a single person.

Sullage

SUL'LAGE, noun [See Sulliage.] A drain of filth, or filth collected from the street or highway.

Sullen

SUL'LEN, adjective [perhaps set, fixed, and allied to silent, sill, etc.]

1. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor.

And sullen I forsook th' imperfect feast.

2. Mischievous; malignant.

Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.

3. Obstinate; intractable.

Things are as sullen as we are.

4. Gloomy; dark; dismal.

Why are thine eyes fix'd to the sullen earth?

Night with her sullen wings.

No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows.

5. Heavy; dull; sorrowful.

Be thou the trumpet of our wrath,

And sullen presage of your own decay.

Sullenly

SUL'LENLY, adverb Gloomily; malignantly; intractably; with moroseness.

Sullenness

SUL'LENNESS, noun Ill nature with silence; silent moroseness; gloominess; malignity; intractableness.

Sullens

SUL'LENS, noun plural A morose temper; gloominess. [Not in use.]

Sulliage

SUL'LIAGE, noun Foulness; filth. [Not in use.]

Sullied

SUL'LIED, participle passive Soiled; tarnished; stained.

Sully

SUL'LY, verb transitive

1. To soil; to dirt; to spot; to tarnish.

And statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.

2. To tarnish; to darken.

Let there be no spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.

3. To stain; to tarnish; as the purity of reputation; as virtues sullied by slanders; character sullied by infamous vices.

SUL'LY, verb intransitive To be soiled or tarnished.

Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.

SUL'LY, noun Soil, tarnish; spot.

A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies on his reputation.

Sullying

SUL'LYING, participle present tense Soiling; tarnishing; staining.

Sulphate

SUL'PHATE, noun [from sulphur.] A neutral salt formed by sulphuric acid in combination with any base; as sulphate of lime.

Sulphatic

SULPHAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to sulphate.

Sulphite

SUL'PHITE, noun [from sulphur.] A salt or definite compound formed by a combination of sulphurous acid with a base.

Sulphore

SUL'PHORE

SUL'PHUR, noun [Latin] A simple combustible mineral substance, of a yellow color, brittle, insoluble in water, but fusible by heat. It is called also brimstone, that is, burn-stone, from its great combustibility. It burns with a blue flame and a peculiar suffocating odor. Sulphur native or prismatic is of two kinds, common and volcanic.

Sulphur

SUL'PHUR, n. [L.] A simple combustible mineral substance, of a yellow color, brittle, insoluble in water, but fusible by heat. It is called also brimstone, that is, burn-stone, from its great combustibility. It burns with a blue flame and a peculiar suffocating odor. Sulphur native or prismatic is of two kinds, common and volcanic.

Sulphur-Wort

SUL'PHUR-WORT, noun A plant, hog's fennel, of the genus Peucedanum.

Sulphurate

SUL'PHURATE, adjective [Latin sulphuratus.] Belonging to sulphur; of the color of sulphur. [Little used.]

SUL'PHURATE, verb transitive To combine with sulphur.

Sulphurated

SUL'PHURATED, participle passive Combined or impregnated with sulphur; as sulphurated hydrogen gas.

Sulphuration

SULPHURA'TION, noun Act of addressing or anointing with sulphur.

Sulphureous

SULPHU'REOUS, adjective Consisting of sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur or brimstone; impregnated with sulphur.

Her snakes untied, sulphureous waters drink.

Sulphureously

SULPHU'REOUSLY, adverb In a sulphureous manner.

Sulphureousness

SULPHU'REOUSNESS, noun The state of being sulphureous.

Sulphuret

SUL'PHURET, noun A combination of sulphur with a metallic, earthy or alkaline base; as a sulphuret of potash.

Sulphureted

SUL'PHURETED, adjective Applied to gaseous bodies holding sulphur in solution; as sulphureted hydrogen.

Sulphuric

SUL'PHURIC, adjective Pertaining to sulphur; more strictly, designating an acid formed by sulphur saturated with oxygen; as sulphuric acid, formerly called vitriolic acid, or oil of vitrol.

Sulphurous

SUL'PHUROUS, adjective Like sulphur; containing sulphur; also, designating an acid formed by sulphur subsaturated with oxygen. This is called sulphurous acid.

Sulphury

SUL'PHURY, adjective Partaking of sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur.

Sultan

SUL'TAN, noun [ Heb. to rule.] An appellation given to the emperor of the Turks, denoting ruler or commander.

Sultan-Flower

SUL'TAN-FLOWER, noun A plant, a species of Centaurea.

Sultana

SULTA'NA

SUL'TANESS, noun The queen of a sultan; the empress of the Turks.

Sultaness

SUL'TANESS, n. The queen of a sultan; the empress of the Turks.

Sultanry

SUL'TANRY, noun An eastern empire; the dominions of a sultan.

Sultriness

SUL'TRINESS, noun [from sultry.] The state of being sultry; heat with a moist or close air.

Sultry

SUL'TRY, adjective

1. Very hot, burning and oppressive; as Libya's sultry deserts.

2. Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant and unelastic; as air or the atmosphere. A sultry air is usually enfeebling and oppressive to the human body.

Such as born beneath the burning sky

And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie.

Sum

SUM, noun [Latin summa, a sum; Latin simul, together; Heb. to set or place.]

1. The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added. The sum of 5 and 7 is 12.

How precious are thy thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them! Psalms 139:17.

Take the sum of all the congregation. Numbers 1:2.

[Sum is now applied more generally to numbers, and number to persons.]

2. A quantity of money or currency; any amount indefinitely. I sent him a sum of money, a small sum or a large sum I received a large sum in bank notes.

3. Compendium; abridgment; the amount; the substance. This is the sum of all the evidence in the case. This is the sum and substance of all his objections. The sum of all I have said is this.

The phrase, in sum is obsolete or nearly so.

In sum the gospel considered as a law, prescribes every virtue to our conduct, and forbids every sin.

4. Highth; completion.

Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought

My story to the sum of earthly bliss.

SUM, verb transitive To add particulars into one whole; to collect two or more particular numbers into one number; to cast up; usually followed by up, but it is superfluous. Custom enables a man to sum up a long column of figures with surprising facility and correctness.

The hour doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day.

1. To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense. He summed up his arguments at the close of his speech, with great force and effect.

'Go to the ant, thou sluggard, ' in few words, sums up the moral of this fable.

2. In falconry, to have feathers full grown.

With prosperous wing full summ'd. [Unusual.]

Sumac

SUMAC

SUMACH, noun shu'mak. A plant or shrub of the genus Rhus, of many species, some of which are used in tanning and dyeing, and in medicine.

Sumach

SUMACH, n. shu'mak. A plant or shrub of the genus Rhus, of many species, some of which are used in tanning and dyeing, and in medicine.

Sumless

SUM'LESS, adjective Not to be computed; of which the amount cannot be ascertained.

The sumless treasure of exhausted mines.

Summarily

SUM'MARILY, adverb [from summary.] In a summary manner; briefly; concisely; in a narrow compass or in few words. The Lord's prayer teaches us summarily the things we are to ask for.

1. In a short way or method.

When the parties proceed summarily and they choose the ordinary way of proceeding, the cause is made plenary.

Summary

SUM'MARY, adjective [Latin summa.] Reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as a summary statement of arguments or objections; a summary proceeding or process.

SUM'MARY, noun An abridged account; an abstract, abridgment or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account; as the comprehensive summary of our duty to God in the first table of the law.

Summed

SUM'MED, participle passive [from sum.] Collected into a total amount; fully grown, as feathers.

Summer

SUM'MER, noun One who casts up an account.

SUM'MER, noun With us, the season of the year comprehended in the months June, July and August; during which time, the sun being north of the equator, shines more directly upon this part of the earth, which, together with the increased length of the days, renders this the hottest period of the year. In latitudes south of the equator, just the opposite takes place, or it is summer there when it is winter here.

The entire year is also sometimes divided into summer and winter, the former signifying the warmer and the latter the colder part of the year.

SUM'MER, verb intransitive To pass the summer or warm season.

The fowls shall summer upon them. Isaiah 18:6.

SUM'MER, verb transitive To keep warm. [Little used.]

SUM'MER, noun

1. A large stone, the first that is laid over columns and pilasters, beginning to make a cross vault; or a stone laid over a column, and hollowed to receive the first haunce of a platband.

2. A large timber supported on two stone piers or posts, serving as a lintel to a door or window, etc.

3. A large timber or beam laid as a central floor timber, inserted into the girders, and receiving the ends of the joists and supporting them. This timber is seen in old buildings in America and in France. In America, it is wholly laid aside. It is called in England summer-tree.

Summer-Colt

SUM'MER-COLT, noun The undulating state of the air near the surface of the ground when heated. [Not used in America.]

Summer-Cypress

SUMMER-CYPRESS, noun A plant, a species of Chenopodium.

Summer-Fallow

SUMMER-FAL'LOW, noun [See Fallow.] Naked fallow; land lying bare of crops in summer.

SUMMER-FAL'LOW, verb transitive To plow and work repeatedly in summer, to prepare for wheat or other crop.

Summer-House

SUM'MER-HOUSE, noun A house or apartment in a garden to be used in summer.

1. A house for summer's residence.

Summer-Wheat

SUM'MER-WHEAT, noun Spring wheat.

Summerset

SUMMERSET, noun A high leap in which the heels are thrown over the head.

Summing

SUM'MING, participle present tense of sum. Adding together.

Summist

SUM'MIST, noun One that forms an abridgment. [Little used.]

Summit

SUM'MIT, noun [Latin summitas, from summus, highest.]

1. The top; the highest point; as the summit of a mountain.

2. The highest point or degree; utmost elevation. The general arrived to the summit of human fame.

Summon

SUM'MON, verb transitive [Latin submoneo; sub and moneo.]

1. To call, cite or notify by authority to appear at a place specified, or to attend in person to some public duty, or both; as, to summon a jury; to summon witnesses.

The parliament is summoned by the king's writ or letter.

Nor trumpets summon him to war.

2. To give notice to a person to appear in court and defend.

3. To call or command.

Love, duty, safety summon us away.

4. To call up; to excite into action or exertion; with up. summon up all your strength or courage.

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

Summoned

SUM'MONED, participle passive Admonished or warned by authority to appear or attend to something; called or cited by authority.

Summoner

SUM'MONER, noun One who summons or cites by authority. In England, the sheriff's messenger, employed to warn persons to appear in court.

Summoning

SUM'MONING, participle present tense Citing by authority to appear or attend to something.

Summons

SUM'MONS, noun with a plural termination, but used in the singular number; as a summons is prepared. [Latin submoneas.]

A call by authority or the command of a superior to appear at a place named, or to attend to some public duty.

This summons he resolved not to disobey.

He sent to summon the seditious and to offer pardon; but neither summons nor pardon was regarded.

1. In law, a warning or citation to appear in court; or a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the demand of the plaintiff.

Sumoom

SUMOOM', noun A pestilential wind of Persia. [See Simoom.]

Sump

SUMP, noun In metallurgy, a round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.

1. A pond of water reserved for salt-works.

2. In mining, a pit sunk below the bottom of the mine.

Sumpter

SUMP'TER, noun A horse that carries clothes or furniture; a baggage-horse; usually called a pack-horse.

Sumption

SUMP'TION, noun [Latin sumo, , sumptus.] A taking. [Not in use.]

Sumptuary

SUMP'TUARY, adjective [Latin sumptuarius, from sumptus, expense.]

Relating to expense. sumptuary laws or regulations are such as restrain or limit the expenses of citizens in apparel, food, furniture, etc. sumptuary laws are abridgments of liberty, and of very difficult execution. They can be justified only on the ground of extreme necessity.

Sumptuosity

SUMPTUOS'ITY, noun [from sumptuous.] Expensiveness; costliness. [Not in use.]

Sumptuous

SUMP'TUOUS, adjective [Latin sumptuosus.] Costly; expensive; hence, splendid; magnificent; as a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel.

We are too magnificent and sumptuous in our tables and attendance.

Sumptuously

SUMP'TUOUSLY, adverb Expensively; splendidly; with great magnificence.

Sumptuousness

SUMP'TUOUSNESS, noun Costliness; expensiveness.

I will not fall out with those who can reconcile sumptuousness and charity.

1. Splendor; magnificence.

Sun

SUN, noun

1. The splendid orb or luminary which, being in or near the center of our system of worlds, gives light and heat to all the planets. The light of the sun constitutes the day, and the darkness which proceeds form its absence, or the shade of the earth, constitutes the night. Psalms 136:8.

2. In popular usage, a sunny place; a place where the beams of the sun fall; as, to stand in the sun that is, to stand where the direct rays of the sun fall.

3. Any thing eminently splendid or luminous; that which is the chief source of light or honor. The natives of America complain that the sun of their glory is set.

I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignty to posterity.

4. In Scripture, Christ is called the sun of righteousness, as the source of light, animation and comfort to his disciples.

5. The luminary or orb which constitutes the center of any system of worlds. The fixed stars are supposed to be suns in their respective systems.

Under the sun in the world; on earth; a proverbial expression.

There is no new thing under the sun Ecclesiastes 1:3.

SUN, verb transitive To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the light of the sun; to insolate; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.

--Then to sun thyself in open air.

Sun-Bright

SUN'-BRIGHT, adjective [sun and bright.] Bright as the sun; like the sun in brightness; as a sun-bright shield; a sun-bright chariot.

How and which way I may bestow myself

To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.

SUN'-BURNING, noun [sun and burning.] The burning or tan occasioned by the rays of the sun on the skin.

Sun-Burnt

SUN-BURNT, adjective [sun and burnt.] Discolored by the heat or rays of the sun; tanned; darkened in hue; as a sunburnt skin.

Sunburnt and swarthy though she be.

1. Scorched by the sun's rays; as a sunburnt soil.

Sun-Dial

SUN'-DIAL, noun [sun and dial.] An instrument to show the time of day, by means of the shadow of a gnomon or style on a plate.

SUN'-DRIED, adjective [sun and dry.] Dried in the rays of the sun.

Sunbeam

SUN'BEAM, noun [sun and beam.] A ray of the sun. Truth written with a sunbeam is truth made obviously plain.

Gliding through the even on a sunbeam

SUN'-BEAT, adjective [sun and beat.] Struck by the sun's rays; shone brightly on.

Sunclad

SUN'CLAD, adjective [sun and clad.] Clad in radiance or brightness.

Sunday

SUN'DAY, noun The christian sabbath; the first day of the week, a day consecrated to rest from secular employments, and to religious worship. It is called also the Lord's day. Many pious persons however discard the use of sunday and call the day the sabbath.

Sunder

SUN'DER, verb transitive

1. To part; to separate; to divide; to disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; as, to sunder a rope or cord; to sunder a limb or joint; to sunder friends, or the ties of friendship. The executioner sunders the head from the body at a stroke. A mountain may be sundered by an earthquake.

Bring me lightning, give me thunder;

--Jove may kill, but ne'er shall sunder

2. To expose to the sun. [Provincial in England.]

SUN'DER, noun In sunder in tow.

He cutteth the spear in sunder Psalms 46:9.

Sundered

SUN'DERED, participle passive Separated; divided; parted.

Sundering

SUN'DERING, participle present tense Parting; separating.

SUN'-DEW, noun [sun and dew.] A plant of the genus Drosera.

Sundry

SUN'DRY, adjective Several; divers; more than one or two. [This word, like several, is indefinite; but it usually signifies a small number, sometimes many.]

I have composed sundry collects.

Sundry foes the rural realm surround.

Sunfish

SUN'FISH, noun [sun and fish.] A name of the diodon, a genus of fishes of a very singular form, appearing like the fore part of the body of a very deep fish amputated in the middle.

The sunfish is the Tetraodon mola of Linne.

1. The basking shark.

Sunflower

SUN'FLOWER, noun [sun and flower.] A plant of the genus Helianthus; so called from the form and color of its flower, or from its habit of turning to the sun. The bastard sunflower is of the genus Helenium; the dwarf sunflower is of the genus Rudbeckia, and another of the genus Tetragonotheca; the little sunflower is of the genus Cistus.

Sung

SUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of sing.

While to his harp divine Amphion sung

Sunk

SUNK, preterit tense and participle passive of sink.

Or toss'd by hope, or sunk by care.

Sunless

SUN'LESS, adjective [sun and less.] Destitute of the sun or its rays; shaded.

Sunlike

SUN'LIKE, adjective [sun and like.] Resembling the sun.

Sunny

SUN'NY, adjective [from sun.] Like the sun; bright.

1. Proceeding from the sun; as sunny beams.

2. Exposed to the rays of the sun; warmed by the direct rays of the sun; as the sunny side of a hill or building.

Her blooming mountains and her sunny shores.

3. Colored by the sun.

Her sunny locks

Hang on her temples like a golden fleece.

Sunproof

SUN'PROOF, adjective [sun and proof.] Impervious to the rays of the sun.

Sunrise

SUN'RISE

SUN'RISING, noun [sun and rise.] The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning; or more generally, the time of such appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weather.

1. The east.

Sunrising

SUN'RISING, n. [sun and rise.] The first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning; or more generally, the time of such appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weather. 1. The east.

Sunset

SUN'SET

SUN'SETTING, noun [sun and set.] The descent of the sun below the horizon; or the time when the sun sets; evening.

Sunsetting

SUN'SETTING, n. [sun and set.] The descent of the sun below the horizon; or the time when the sun sets; evening.

Sunshine

SUN'SHINE, noun [sun and shine.] The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, or the place where they fall.

But all sunshine as when his beams at noon

Culminate from th' equator.

1. A place warmed and illuminated; warmth; illumination.

The man that sits within a monarch's heart,

And ripens in the sunshine of his favor.

SUN'SHINE

Sunshiny

SUN'SHINY, adjective Bright with the rays of the sun; clear, warm or pleasant; as a sunshiny day; sunshiny weather.

1. Bright like the sun.

--Flashing beams of that sunshiny shield.

Sup

SUP, verb transitive To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.

There I'll sup

Balm and nectar in my cup.

SUP, verb intransitive To eat the evening meal.

When they had supped, they brought Tobias in.

SUP, verb transitive To treat with supper.

SUP them well. [Not in use.]

SUP, noun A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.

Tom Thumb got a little sup

Super

SUPER, a Latin preposition, Gr. signifies above, over, excess. It is much used in composition.

Superable

SU'PERABLE, adjective [Latin superabilis, form supero, to overcome.]

That may be overcome or conquered. These are superable difficulties.

Superableness

SU'PERABLENESS, noun The quality of being conquerable or surmountable.

Superably

SU'PERABLY, adverb So as may be overcome.

Superabound

SUPERABOUND', verb intransitive [super and abound.] To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient. The country super-abounds with corn.

Superabounding

SUPERABOUND'ING, participle present tense A bounding beyond want or necessity; abundant to excess or a great degree.

Superabundance

SUPERABUND'ANCE, noun More than enough; excessive abundance; as a superabundance of the productions of the earth.

Superabundant

SUPERABUND'ANT, adjective Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; as superabundant zeal.

Superabundantly

SUPERABUND'ANTLY, adverb More than sufficiently.

Superacidulated

SUPERACID'ULATED, adjective [super and acidulated.] Acidulated to excess.

Superadd

SUPERADD', verb transitive [super and add.] To add over and above; to add to what has been added.

1. To add or annex something extrinsic.

The strength of a living creature, in those external motions, is something distinct from and superadded to its natural gravity.

Superadded

SUPERADD'ED, participle passive Added over and above.

Superadding

SUPERADD'ING, participle present tense Adding over and above; adding something extrinsic.

Superaddition

SUPERADDI'TION, noun [super and addition.]

1. The act of adding to something, or of adding something extraneous.

2. That which is added.

This superaddition is nothing but fat.

Superadvenient

SUPERADVE'NIENT, adjective [Latin superadveniens.]

1. Coming upon; coming to the increase or assistance of something.

When a man has done bravely by the superadvenient assistance of his God--

2. Coming unexpectedly. [This word is little used.]

Superangelic

SUPERANGEL'IC, adjective [super and angelic.] Superior in nature or rank to the angels. One class of Unitarians believe Christ to be a superangelic being.

Superannuate

SUPERAN'NUATE, verb transitive [Latin super and annus, a year.] To impair or disqualify by old age and infirmity; as a superannuated magistrate.

SUPERAN'NUATE, verb intransitive To last beyond the year. [Not in use.]

Superannuated

SUPERAN'NUATED, participle passive Impaired or disqualified by old age.

Superannuation

SUPERANNUA'TION, noun The state of being too old for office of business, or of being disqualified by old age.

Superb

SUPERB', adjective [Latin superbus, proud, from super.]

1. Grand; magnificent; as a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.

2. Rich; elegant; as superb furniture or decorations.

3. Showy; pompous; as a superb exhibition.

4. Rich; splendid; as a superb entertainment.

5. August; stately.

Superbly

SUPERB'LY, adverb In a magnificent or splendid manner; richly; elegantly.

Supercargo

SUPERC'ARGO, noun [super and cargo.] An officer or person in a merchant's ship, whose business is to manage the sales and superintend all the commercial concerns of the voyage.

Supercelestial

SUPERCELES'TIAL, adjective [super and celestial.] Situated above the firmament or great vault of heaven.

Superciliary

SUPERCIL'IARY, adjective [Latin super and cilium, the eyebrow.] Situated or being above the eyebrow.

The superciliary arch, is the bony superior arch of the orbit.

Supercilious

SUPERCIL'IOUS, adjective [Latin superciliosus. See above.]

1. Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; as a supercilious officer.

2. Manifesting haughtiness, or proceeding from it; overbearing; as a supercilious air; supercilious behavior.

Superciliously

SUPERCIL'IOUSLY, adverb Haughtily; dogmatically; with an air of contempt.

Superciliousness

SUPERCIL'IOUSNESS, noun Haughtiness; an overbearing temper or manner.

Superconception

SUPERCONCEP'TION, noun [super and conception.] A conception after a former conception.

Superconsequence

SUPERCON'SEQUENCE, noun [super and consequence.] Remote consequence. [Not used.]

Supercrescence

SUPERCRES'CENCE, noun [Latin super and crescens.] That which grows upon another growing thing.

Supercrescent

SUPERCRES'CENT, adjective [supra.] Growing on some other growing thing.

Supereminence

SUPEREM'INENCE

SUPEREM'INENCY, noun [Latin super and emineo.] Eminence superior to what is common; distinguished eminence; as the supereminence of Cicero as an orator; the supereminence of Dr. Johnson as a writer, or of lord Chatham as a statesman.

Supereminency

SUPEREM'INENCY, n. [L. super and emineo.] Eminence superior to what is common; distinguished eminence; as the supereminence of Cicero as an orator; the supereminence of Dr. Johnson as a writer, or of lord Chatham as a statesman.

Supereminent

SUPEREM'INENT, adjective Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ.

Supereminently

SUPEREM'INENTLY, adverb In a superior degree of excellence; with unusual distinction.

Supererogant

SUPERER'OGANT, adjective Supererogatory, which see.

Supererogate

SUPERER'OGATE, verb intransitive [Latin super and erogatio, erogo.] To do more than duty requires. Aristotle's followers have supererogated in observance. [Little used.]

Supererogation

SUPEREROGA'TION, noun [supra.] Performance of more than duty requires.

There is no such thing as works of supererogation

Supererogative

SUPEREROG'ATIVE, adjective Supererogatory. [Not much used.]

Supererogatory

SUPEREROG'ATORY, adjective Performed to an extent not enjoined or not required by duty; as supererogatory services.

Superessential

SUPERESSEN'TIAL, adjective [super and essential.] Essential above others, or above the constitution of a thing.

Superexalt

SUPEREXALT', verb transitive [super and exalt.] To exalt to a superior degree.

Superexaltation

SUPEREXALTA'TION, noun [super and exaltation.] Elevation above the common degree.

Superexcellence

SUPEREX'CELLENCE, noun [super and excellence.] Superior excellence.

Superexcellent

SUPEREX'CELLENT, adjective Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent.

Superexcrescence

SUPEREXCRES'CENCE, noun [super and excrescence.] Something superfluously growing.

Superfecundity

SUPERFECUND'ITY, noun [super and fecundity.] Superabundant fecundity

or multiplication of the species.

Superfetate

SUPERFE'TATE, verb intransitive [Latin super and foetus.] To conceive after a prior conception.

The female is said to superfetate

Superfetation

SUPERFETA'TION, noun A second conception after a prior one, and before the birth of the first, by which two fetuses are growing at once in the same matrix.

Superfete

SU'PERFETE, verb intransitive To superfetate. [Little used.]

SU'PERFETE, verb transitive To conceive after a former conception. [Little used.]

Superfice

SU'PERFICE, noun Superficies; surface. [Little used.] [See Superficies.]

Superficial

SUPERFI'CIAL, adjective

1. Being on the surface; not penetrating the substance of a thing; as a superficial color; a superficial covering.

2. Composing the surface or exterior part; as, soil constitutes the superficial part of the earth.

3. Shallow; contrived to cover something.

This superficial tale

Is but a preface to her worthy praise.

4. Shallow; not deep or profound; reaching or comprehending only what is obvious or apparent; as a superficial scholar; superficial knowledge.

Superficiality

SUPERFICIAL'ITY, noun The quality of being superficial. [Not much used.]

Superficially

SUPERFI'CIALLY, adverb On the surface only; as a substance superficially tinged with a color.

1. On the surface or exterior part only; without penetrating the substance or essence; as, to survey things superficially

2. Without going deep or searching things to the bottom; slightly. He reasons superficially

I have laid down superficially my present thoughts.

Superficialness

SUPERFI'CIALNESS, noun Shallowness; position on the surface.

1. Slight knowledge; shallowness of observation or learning; show without substance.

Superficies

SUPERFI'CIES, noun [Latin from super, upon, and facies, face.] The surface; the exterior part of a thing. A superficies consists of length and breadth; as the superficies of a plate or of a sphere. superficies is rectilinear, curvilinear, plane, convex or concave.

Superfine

SU'PERFINE, adjective [super and fine.] Very fine or most fine; surpassing others in fineness; as superfine cloth. The word is chiefly used of cloth, but sometimes of liquors; as superfine wine or cider; and of other things, as superfine wire; superfine flour.

Superfluence

SUPER'FLUENCE, noun [Latin super and fluo, to flow.] Superfluity; more than is necessary. [Little used.]

Superfluitance

SUPERFLU'ITANCE, noun [Latin super and fluito, to float.] The act of floating above or on the surface. [Little used.]

Superfluitant

SUPERFLU'ITANT, adjective Floating above or on the surface. [Little used.]

Superfluity

SUPERFLU'ITY, noun [Latin superfluitas; super and fluo, to flow.]

1. Superabundance; a greater quantity than is wanted; as a superfluity of water or provisions.

2. Something that is beyond what is wanted; something rendered unnecessary by its abundance. Among the superfluities of life we seldom number the abundance of money.

Superfluous

SUPER'FLUOUS, adjective [Latin superfluus, overflowing; super and fluo, to flow.]

1. More than is wanted; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; as a superfluous supply of corn.

2. More than sufficient; unnecessary; useless; as a composition abounding with superfluous words. superfluous epithets rather enfeeble than strengthen description. If what has been said will not convince, it would be superfluous to say more.

Superfluous interval, in music, is one that exceeds a true diatonic interval by a semitone minor.

Superfluous polygamy, (Polygamia superflua, ) a kind of inflorescence or compound flower, in which the florets of the disk are hermaphrodite and fertile, and those of the ray, though female or pistiliferous only, are also fertile; designating the second order of the class Syngenesia of Linne.

Superfluous sound or tone, is one which contains a semitone minor more than a tone.

Superfluously

SUPER'FLUOUSLY, adverb With excess; in a degree beyond what is necessary.

Superfluousness

SUPER'FLUOUSNESS, noun The state of being superfluous or beyond what is wanted.

Superflux

SU'PERFLUX, noun [Latin super and fluxus.] That which is more than is wanted. [Little used.]

Superfoliation

SUPERFOLIA'TION, noun [super and foliation.] Excess of foliation. [Not used.]

Superhuman

SUPERHU'MAN, adjective [super and human.] Above or beyond what is human; divine.

Superimpose

SUPERIMPOSE, verb transitive superimpo'ze. [super and impose.] To lay or impose on something else; as a stratum of earth superimposed on a different stratum.

Superimposed

SUPERIMPO'SED, participle passive Laid or imposed on something.

Superimposing

SUPERIMPO'SING, participle present tense Laying on something else.

Superimposition

SUPERIMPOSI'TION, noun The act of laying or the state of being placed on something else.

Superimpregnation

SUPERIMPREGNA'TION, noun [super and impregnation.] The act of impregnating upon a prior impregnation; impregnation when previously impregnated.

Superincumbent

SUPERINCUM'BENT, adjective [super and incumbent.] Lying or resting on something else.

Superinduce

SUPERINDU'CE, verb transitive [super and induce.] To bring in or upon as an addition to something; as, to superinduce a virtue or quality upon a person not before possessing it.

Long custom of sinning superinduces upon the soul new and absurd desires.

Superinduced

SUPERINDU'CED, participle passive Induced or brought upon something.

Superinducing

SUPERINDU'CING, participle present tense Inducing on something else.

Superinduction

SUPERINDUC'TION, noun The act of superinducing.

The superinduction of ill habits quickly defaces the first rude draught of virtue.

Superinjection

SUPERINJEC'TION, noun [super and injection.] An injection succeeding another.

Superinspect

SUPERINSPECT', verb transitive [super and inspect.] To oversee; to superintend by inspection. [Little used.]

Superinstitution

SUPERINSTITU'TION, noun [super and institution.] One institution upon another; as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B is instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another.

Superintellectual

SUPERINTELLEC'TUAL, adjective [super and intellectual.] Being above intellect.

Superintend

SUPERINTEND', verb transitive [super and intend.] To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to oversee with the power of direction; to take care of with authority; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or the construction of a fort. God exercises a superintending care over all his creatures.

Superintended

SUPERINTEND'ED, participle passive Overseen; taken care of.

Superintendence

SUPERINTEND'ENCE

SUPERINTEND'ENCY, noun The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction and with authority to direct.

Superintendency

SUPERINTEND'ENCY, n. The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction and with authority to direct.

Superintendent

SUPERINTEND'ENT, noun One who has the oversight and charge of something, with the power of direction; as the superintendent of an alms-house or work-house; the superintendent of public works; the superintendent of customs or finance.

1. An ecclesiastical superior in some reformed churches.

Superintending

SUPERINTEND'ING, participle present tense Overseeing with the authority to direct what shall be done and how it shall be done.

Superior

SUPE'RIOR, adjective [Sp. Latin from super, above.]

1. Higher; upper; more elevated in place; as the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

2. Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.

3. Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, goodness or value of any quality; as a man of superior merit, of superior bravery, of superior talents or understanding, of superior accomplishments.

4. Being beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; as a man superior to revenge.

There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

5. In botany, a superior flower has the receptacle of the flower above the germ; a superior germ is included within the corol.

SUPE'RIOR, noun One who is more advanced in age. Old persons or elders are the superiors of the young.

1. One who is more elevated in rank or office.

2. One who surpasses others in dignity, excellence or qualities of any kind. As a writer of pure English, Addison has no superior

3. The chief of a monastery, convent or abbey.

Superiority

SUPERIOR'ITY, noun Pre-eminence; the quality of being more advanced or higher, greater or more excellent than another in any respect; as superiority of age, of rank or dignity, of attainments or excellence. The superiority of others in fortune and rank, is more readily acknowledged than superiority of understanding.

Superlation

SUPERLA'TION, noun [Latin superlatio.] Exaltation of any thing beyond truth or propriety. [I believe not used.]

Superlative

SUPER'LATIVE, adjective [Latin superlativus; super and latio, latus, fero.]

1. Highest in degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; as a man of superlative wisdom or prudence, of superlative worth; a woman of superlative beauty.

2. Supreme; as the superlative glory of the divine character.

3. In grammar, expressing the highest or utmost degree; as the superlative degree of comparison.

SUPER'LATIVE, noun In grammar, the superlative degree of adjectives, which is formed by the termination est, as meanest, highest, bravest; or by the use of most, as most high, most brave; or by least, as least amiable.

Superlatively

SUPER'LATIVELY, adverb In a manner expressing the utmost degree.

I shall not speak superlatively of them.

1. In the highest or utmost degree. Tiberius was superlatively wicked; Clodius was superlatively profligate.

Superlativeness

SUPER'LATIVENESS, noun The state of being in the highest degree.

Superlunar

SUPERLU'NAR

SUPERLU'NARY, adjective [Latin super and luna, the moon.] Being above the moon; not sublunary or of this world.

The head that turns at superlunar things.

Superlunary

SUPERLU'NARY, a. [L. super and luna, the moon.] Being above the moon; not sublunary or of this world. The head that turns at superlunar things.

Supermundane

SUPERMUN'DANE, adjective [super and mundane.] Being above the world.

Supernal

SUPERN'AL, adjective [Latin supernus, super.] Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as the supernal orbs; supernal regions.

1. Relating to things above; celestial; heavenly; as supernal grace.

Not by the sufferings of supernal pow'r.

Supernatant

SUPERNA'TANT, adjective [Latin supernatans, supernato; super and nato, to swim.] Swimming above; floating on the surface; as oil supernatant on water.

Supernatation

SUPERNATA'TION, noun The act of floating on the surface of a fluid.

Supernatural

SUPERNAT'URAL, adjective [super and natural.] Being beyond or exceeding the powers or laws of nature; miraculous. A supernatural event is one which is not produced according to the ordinary or established laws of natural things. Thus if iron has more specific gravity than water, it will sink in that fluid; and the floating of iron on water must be a supernatural event. Now no human being can alter a law of nature; the floating of iron on water therefore must be caused by divine power specially exerted to suspend, in this instance, a law of nature. Hence supernatural events or miracles can be produced only by the immediate agency of divine power.