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Supernaturally

SUPERNAT'URALLY, adverb In a manner exceeding the established course or laws of nature. The prophets must have been supernaturally taught or enlightened, for their predictions were beyond human fore-knowledge.

Supernaturalness

SUPERNAT'URALNESS, noun The state or quality of being beyond the power or ordinary laws of nature.

Supernumerary

SUPERNU'MERARY, adjective [Latin super and numerus, number.]

1. Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as a supernumerary officer in a regiment; a supernumerary canon in the church.

2. Exceeding a necessary, a usual or a round number; as supernumerary addresses; supernumerary expense.

SUPERNU'MERARY, noun A person or thing beyond the number stated, or beyond what is necessary or usual. On the reduction of the

regiments, several supernumeraries were to be provided for.

Superparticular

SUPERPARTIC'ULAR, adjective [super and particular.] Noting a ratio when the excess of the greater term is a unit; as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4.

Superpartient

SUPERP'ARTIENT, adjective [Latin super and partio.] Noting a ratio when the excess of the greater term is more than a unit; as that of 3 to 5, or of 7 to 10.

Superplant

SU'PERPLANT, noun [super and plant.] A plant growing on another plant; as the mistletoe. [Not used.] [We now use parasite.]

Superplusage

SUPERPLUS'AGE, noun [Latin super and plus.] That which is more than enough; excess. [We now use surplusage, which see.]

Superponderate

SUPERPON'DERATE, verb transitive [Latin super and pondero.] To weigh over and above. [Not used.]

Superpose

SUPERPOSE, verb transitive superpo'ze. [super and Fr. poser, to law.]

To law upon, as one kind of rock on another.

Superposed

SUPERPO'SED, participle passive Laid or being upon something.

Superposing

SUPERPO'SING, participle present tense Placing upon something.

Superposition

SUPERPOSI'TION, noun [super and position.]

1. A placing above; a lying or being situated above or upon something; as the superposition of rocks.

2. That which is situated above or upon something else.

Superpraise

SU'PERPRAISE, verb transitive su'perpraze. To praise to excess.

Superproportion

SUPERPROPORTION, noun [super and proportion.] Overplus of proportion.

Superpurgation

SUPERPURGA'TION, noun [super and purgation.] More purgation than is sufficient.

Superreflection

SUPERREFLEC'TION, noun [super and reflection.] The reflection of an image reflected.

Superreward

SUPERREWARD', verb transitive To reward to excess.

Superroyal

SUPERROY'AL, adjective [super and royal.] Larger than royal; denoting the largest species of printing paper.

Supersaliency

SUPERSA'LIENCY, noun [Latin super and salio, to leap.]

The act of leaping on any thing. [Little used.]

Supersalient

SUPERSA'LIENT, adjective Leaping upon.

Supersalt

SU'PERSALT, noun In chimistry, a salt with an excess of acid, as supertartrate of potash.

Supersaturate

SUPERSAT'URATE, verb transitive [Latin super and saturo.] To saturate to excess.

Supersaturated

SUPERSAT'URATED, participle passive Saturated to excess.

Supersaturating

SUPERSAT'URATING, participle present tense Saturating or filling to excess.

Supersaturation

SUPERSATURA'TION, noun The operation of saturating to excess; or the state of being thus saturated.

Superscribe

SUPERSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin super and scribo, to write.] To write or engrave on the top, outside or surface; or to write the name or address of one on the outside or cover; as, to superscribe a letter.

Superscribed

SUPERSCRI'BED, participle passive Inscribed on the outside.

Superscribing

SUPERSCRI'BING, participle present tense Inscribing, writing or engraving on the outside, or on the top.

Superscription

SUPERSCRIP'TION, noun The act of superscribing.

1. That which is written or engraved on the outside, or above something else.

The superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Mark 15:26. Luke 23:38.

2. An impression of letters on coins. Matthew 22:20.

Supersecular

SUPERSEC'ULAR, adjective [super and secular.] Being above the world or secular things.

Supersede

SUPERSE'DE, verb transitive [Latin supersedeo; super and sedeo, to sit.]

1. Literally, to set above; hence, to make void, inefficacious or useless by superior power, or by coming in the place of; to set aside; to render unnecessary; to suspend. The use of artillery in making breaches in walls, has superseded the use of the battering ram. The effect of passion is to supersede the workings of reason.

Nothing is supposed that can supersede the known laws of natural motion.

2. To come or be placed in the room of; hence, to displace or render unnecessary; as, an officer is superseded by the appointment of another person.

Supersedeas

SUPERSE'DEAS, noun In law, a writ of supersedeas is a writ or command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings. This writ does not destroy the power of an officer, for it may be revived by another writ called a procedendo.

Superseded

SUPERSE'DED, participle passive Made void; rendered unnecessary or inefficacious; displaced; suspended.

Superseding

SUPERSE'DING, participle present tense Coming in the place of; setting aside; rendering useless; displacing; suspending.

Supersedure

SUPERSE'DURE, noun The act of superseding; as the supersedure of trial by jury. [New.]

Superserviceable

SUPERSERV'ICEABLE, adjective [super and serviceable.] Over officious; doing more than is required or desired. [Not in use.]

Superstition

SUPERSTI'TION, noun [Latin superstitio, supersto; super and sto, to stand.]

1. Excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; excess or extravagance in religion; the doing of things not required by God, or abstaining from things not forbidden; or the belief of what is absurd, or belief without evidence.

Superstition has reference to god, to religion, or to beings superior to man.

2. False religion; false worship.

3. Rite or practice proceeding from excess of scruples in religion. In this sense, it admits of a plural.

They the truth

With superstitions and traditions taint.

4. Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.

5. Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in omens and prognostics.

Superstitionist

SUPERSTI'TIONIST, noun One addicted to superstition.

Superstitious

SUPERSTI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin superstitiosus.]

1. Over scrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full of idle fancies and scruples in regard to religion; as superstitious people.

2. Proceeding from superstition; manifesting superstition; as superstitious rites; superstitious observances.

3. Over exact; scrupulous beyond need.

Superstitious use, in law, the use of land for a religious purpose, or by a religious corporation.

Superstitiously

SUPERSTI'TIOUSLY, adverb In a superstitious manner; with excessive regard to uncommanded rites or unessential opinions and forms in religion.

1. With too much care; with excessive exactness or scruple.

2. With extreme credulity in regard to the agency of superior beings in extraordinary events.

Superstitiousness

SUPERSTI'TIOUSNESS, noun Superstition.

Superstrain

SUPERSTRA'IN, verb transitive [super and strain.] To overstrain or stretch. [Little used.]

Superstratum

SUPERSTRA'TUM, noun [super and stratum.] A stratum or layer above another, or resting on something else.

Superstruct

SUPERSTRUCT', verb transitive [Latin superstruo; super and struo, to lay.]

To build upon; to erect.

This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocence and then virtue. [Little used.]

Superstruction

SUPERSTRUC'TION, noun An edifice erected on something.

My own profession hath taught me not to erect new super structions on an old ruin.

Superstructive

SUPERSTRUCT'IVE, adjective Built or erected on something else.

Superstucture

SUPERSTUCT'URE, noun Any structure or edifice built on something else; particularly, the building raised on a foundation. This word is used to distinguish what is erected on a wall or foundation from the foundation itself.

1. Any thing erected on a foundation or basis. In education, we begin with teaching languages as the foundation, and proceed to erect on that foundation the superstructure of science.

Supersubstantial

SUPERSUBSTAN'TIAL, adjective [super and substantial.] More than substantial; being more than substance.

Supersulphate

SUPERSUL'PHATE, noun Sulphate with an excess of acid.

Supersulphureted

SUPERSUL'PHURETED, adjective Combined with an excess of sulphur.

Superterrene

SUPERTERRE'NE, adjective [super and terrene.] Being above ground, or above the earth.

Superterrestrial

SUPERTERRES'TRIAL, adjective Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth.

Supertonic

SUPERTON'IC, noun In music, the note next above the key-note.

Supertragical

SUPERTRAG'ICAL, adjective Tragical to excess.

Supervacaneous

SUPERVACA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin supervacaneus; super and vaco, to make void.] Superfluous; unnecessary; needless; serving no purpose.

Supervacaneously

SUPERVACA'NEOUSLY, adverb Needlessly.

Supervacaneousness

SUPERVACA'NEOUSNESS, noun Needlessness.

Supervene

SUPERVE'NE, verb intransitive [Latin supervenio; super and venio.]

1. To come upon as something extraneous.

Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter, unless impressed by divine power.

2. To come upon; to happen to.

Supervenient

SUPERVE'NIENT, adjective Coming upon as something additional or extraneous.

That branch of belief was in him supervenient to christian practice.

Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes.

Supervention

SUPERVEN'TION, noun The act of supervening.

Supervisal

SUPERVI'SAL, supervi'zal

Supervise

SUPERVI'SE, noun supervi'ze. Inspection. [Not used.]

SUPERVI'SE, verb transitive [Latin super and visus, video, to see.] To oversee; to superintend; to inspect; as, to supervise the press for correction.

Supervised

SUPERVI'SED, participle passive Inspected.

Supervising

SUPERVISING, participle present tense Overseeing; inspecting; superintending.

Supervision

SUPERVI'SION, supervizh'on, noun [from supervise.] The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence.

Supervisor

SUPERVI'SOR, noun An overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as the supervisor of a pamphlet.

Supervive

SUPERVI'VE, verb transitive [Latin super and vivo, to live.] To live beyond; to outlive. The soul will supervive all the revolutions of nature. [Little used.] [See Survive.]

Supination

SUPINA'TION, noun [Latin supino.] The act of lying or state of being laid with the face upward.

1. The act of turning the palm of the hand upwards.

Supinator

SUPINA'TOR, noun In anatomy, a muscle that turns the palm of the hand upward.

Supine

SUPI'NE, adjective [Latin supinus.] Lying on the back, or with the face upward; opposed to prone.

1. Leaning backward; or inclining with exposure to the sun.

If the vine

On rising ground be plac'd on hills supine--

2. Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive.

He became pusillanimous and supine and openly exposed to any temptation.

These men suffer by their supine credulity.

SU'PINE, noun [Latin supinum.] In grammar, a word formed from a verb, or a modification of a verb.

Supinely

SUPI'NELY, adverb With the face upward.

1. Carelessly; indolently; drowsily; in a heedless, thoughtless state.

Who on beds of sin supinely lie.

Supineness

SUPI'NENESS, noun A lying with the face upward.

1. Indolence; drowsiness; heedlessness. Many of the evils of life are owing to our own supineness

Supinity

SUPINITY, for supineness, is not used.

Suppage

SUP'PAGE, noun [from sup.] What may be supped; pottage. [Not in use.]

Suppalpation

SUPPALPA'TION, noun [Latin suppalpor; sub and palpor, to stroke.] The act of enticing by soft words. [Not used.]

Supparasitation

SUPPARASITA'TION, noun [Latin supparasitor; sub and parasite.] The act of flattering merely to gain favor. [Not in use.]

Suppedaneous

SUPPEDA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin sub and pes, the foot.] Being under the feet.

Suppeditate

SUPPED'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin suppedito.] To supply. [Not used.]

Suppeditation

SUPPEDITA'TION, noun [Latin suppeditatio.] Supply; aid afforded. [Little used.]

Supper

SUP'PER, noun The evening meal. People who dine late, eat no supper The dinner of fashionable people would be the supper of rustics.

Supperless

SUP'PERLESS, adjective Wanting supper; being without supper; as, to go supperless to bed.

Supplant

SUPPLANT', verb transitive [Latin supplanto; sub and planta, the bottom of the foot.] To trip up the heels.

SUPPLANTed down he fell.

1. To remove or displace by stratagem; or to displace and take the place of; as, a rival supplants another in the affections of his mistress, or in the favor of his prince.

Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend.

2. To overthrow; to undermine.

Supplantation

SUPPLANTA'TION, noun The act of supplanting.

Supplanted

SUPPLANT'ED, participle passive Tripped up; displaced.

Supplanter

SUPPLANT'ER, noun One that supplants.

Supplanting

SUPPLANT'ING, participle present tense Tripping up the heels; displacing by artifice.

Supple

SUP'PLE, adjective

1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as supple joints; supple fingers.

2. Yielding; compliant; not obstinate.

If punishment--makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.

3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning.

4. That makes plaint; as supple government.

SUP'PLE, verb transitive To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.

1. To make compliant.

A mother persisting till she had suppled the will of her daughter.

SUP'PLE, verb intransitive To become soft and pliant; as stones suppled into softness.

Suppled

SUP'PLED, participle passive Made soft and plaint; made compliant.

Supplement

SUP'PLEMENT, noun [Latin supplementum, suppleo; sub and pleo, to fill.]

1. Literally, a supply; hence, an addition to any thing by which its defects are supplied, and it is made more full and complete. The word is particularly used of an addition to a book or paper.

2. Store; supply. [Not in use.]

3. In trigonometry, the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees or a semicircle.

Supplemental

SUPPLEMENT'AL

SUPPLEMENT'ARY, adjective Additional; added to supply what is wanted; as a supplemental law or bill.

Supplementary

SUPPLEMENT'ARY, a. Additional; added to supply what is wanted; as a supplemental law or bill.

Suppleness

SUP'PLENESS, noun [from supple.] Pliancy; pliableness; flexibility; the quality of being easily bent; as the suppleness of the joints.

1. Readiness of compliance; the quality of easily yielding; facility; as the suppleness of the will.

Suppletory

SUP'PLETORY, adjective [from Latin suppleo, to supply.] Supplying deficiencies; as a suppletory oath.

SUP'PLETORY, noun That which is to supply what is wanted.

Supplial

SUPPLI'AL, noun The act of supplying. [Not used.]

Suppliance

SUPPLI'ANCE, noun Continuance. [Not in use.]

Suppliant

SUP'PLIANT, adjective [Latin supplico, to supplicate; sub and plico, to fold. See Comply and Apply.]

1. Entreating; beseeching; supplicating; asking earnestly and submissively.

The rich grow suppliant and the poor grow proud.

2. Manifesting entreaty; expressive of humble supplication.

To bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee.

SUP'PLIANT, noun A humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.

Spare this life, and hear thy suppliant's pray'r.

Suppliantly

SUP'PLIANTLY, adverb In a suppliant or submissive manner.

Supplicant

SUP'PLICANT, adjective [Latin supplicans.] Entreating; asking submissively.

SUP'PLICANT, noun One that entreats; a petitioner who asks earnestly and submissively.

The wise supplicant--left the event to God.

Supplicate

SUP'PLICATE, verb transitive [Latin supplico; sub and plico. See Suppliant.]

1. To entreat for; to seek by earnest prayer; as, to supplicate blessings on christian efforts to spread the gospel.

2. To address in prayer; as, to supplicate the throne of grace.

SUP'PLICATE, verb intransitive To entreat; to beseech; to implore; to petition with earnestness and submission.

A man cannot brook to supplicate or beg.

Supplication

SUPPLICA'TION, noun [Latin supplicatio.]

1. Entreaty; humble and earnest prayer in worship. In all our supplications to the Father of mercies, let us remember a world lying in ignorance and wickedness.

2. Petition; earnest request.

3. In Roman antiquity, a religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success. It consisted in sacrifices, feasting, offering thanks, and praying for a continuance of success.

Supplicatory

SUP'PLICATORY, adjective Containing supplication; humble; submissive.

Supplied

SUPPLI'ED, participle passive [from supply.] Fully furnished; having a sufficiency.

Supplier

SUPPLI'ER, noun He that supplies.

Supply

SUPPLY', verb transitive [Latin suppleo; sub and pleo, disused, to fill.]

1. To fill up, as any deficiency happens; to furnish what is wanted; to afford or furnish a sufficiency; as, to supply the poor with bread and clothing; to supply the daily wants of nature; to supply the navy with masts and spars; to supply the treasury with money. The city is well supplied with water.

I wanted nothing fortune could supply

2. To serve instead of.

Burning ships the banish'd sun supply

3. To give; to bring or furnish.

Nearer care supplies

Signs to my breast, and sorrow to my eyes.

4. To fill vacant room.

The sun was set, and Vesper to supply

His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.

5. To fill; as, to supply a vacancy.

6. In general, to furnish; to give or afford what is wanted.

Modern infidelity supplies no such motives.

SUPPLY', noun Sufficiency for wants given or furnished. The poor have a daily supply of food; the army has ample supplies of provisions and munitions of war. Customs, taxes and excise constitute the supplies of revenue.

Supplying

SUPPLY'ING, participle present tense Yielding or furnishing what is wanted; affording a sufficiency.

Supplyment

SUPPLY'MENT, noun A furnishing. [Not in use.]

Support

SUPPORT, verb transitive [Latin supporto; sub and porto, to carry.]

1. To bear; to sustain; to uphold; as, a prop or pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the stem of a tree supports the branches. Every edifice must have a foundation to support it; a rope or cord supports a weight.

2. To endure without being overcome; as, to support pain, distress or misfortunes.

This fierce demeanor and his insolence,

The patience of a God could not support

3. To bear; to endure; as, to support fatigues or hardships; to support violent exertions. The eye will not support the light of the sun's disk.

4. To sustain; to keep from fainting or sinking; as, to support the courage or spirits.

5. To sustain; to act or represent well; as, to support the character or king Lear; to support the part assigned.

6. To bear; to supply funds for or the means of continuing; as, to support the annual expenses of government.

7. To sustain; to carry on; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or debate.

8. To maintain with provisions and the necessary means of living; as, to support a family; to support a son in college; to support the ministers of the gospel.

9. To maintain; to sustain; to keep from failing; as, to support life; to support the strength by nourishment.

10. To sustain without change or dissolution; as, clay supports an intense heat.

11. To bear; to keep from sinking; as, water supports ships and other bodies; air supports a balloon.

12. To bear without being exhausted; to be able to pay; as, to support taxes or contributions.

13. To sustain; to maintain; as, to support a good character.

14. To maintain; to verify; to make good; to substantiate. The testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations; the impeachment is well supported by evidence.

15. To uphold by aid or countenance; as, to support a friend or a party.

16. To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.

SUPPORT, noun The act or operation of upholding or sustaining.

1. That which upholds, sustains or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, a foundation of any kind.

2. That which maintains life; as, food is the support of life, of the body, of strength. Oxygen or vital air has been supposed to be the support of respiration and of heat in the blood.

3. Maintenance; subsistence; as an income sufficient for the support of a family; or revenue for the support of the army and navy.

4. Maintenance; an upholding; continuance in any state, or preservation from falling, sinking or failing; as taxes necessary for the support of public credit; a revenue for the support of government.

5. In general, the maintenance or sustaining of any thing without suffering it to fail, decline or languish; as the support of health, spirits, strength or courage; the support of reputation, credit, etc.

6. That which upholds or relieves; aid; help; succor; assistance.

Supportable

SUPPORTABLE, adjective That may be upheld or sustained.

1. That may be borne or endured; as, the pain is supportable or not supportable Patience renders evils supportable

2. Tolerable; that may be borne without resistance or punishment; as, such insults are not supportable

3. That can be maintained; as, the cause or opinion is supportable

Supportableness

SUPPORTABLENESS, noun The state of being tolerable.

Supportance

SUPPORTANCE, noun Maintenance; support. [Not in use.]

Supportation

SUPPORTA'TION, noun Maintenance; support. [Not in use.]

Supported

SUPPORTED, participle passive Borne; endured; upheld; maintained; subsisted; sustained; carried on.

Supporter

SUPPORTER, noun One that supports or maintains.

1. That which supports or upholds; a prop, a pillar, etc.

The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured.

2. A sustainer; a comforter.

The saints have a companion and supporter in all their miseries.

3. A maintainer; a defender.

Worthy supporters of such a reigning impiety.

4. One who maintains or helps to carry on; as the supporters of a war.

5. An advocate; a defender; a vindicator; as the supporters of religion, morality, justice, etc.

6. An adherent; one who takes part; as the supporter of a party or faction.

7. In ship-building, a knee placed under the cat-head.

8. Supporters, in heraldry, are figures of beasts that appear to support the arms.

Supportful

SUPPORTFUL, adjective Abounding with support. [Not used.]

Supporting

SUPPORTING, participle present tense Bearing; enduring; upholding; sustaining; maintaining; subsisting; vindicating.

Supportless

SUPPORTLESS, adjective Having no support.

Supportment

SUPPORTMENT, noun Support. [Not in use.]

Supposable

SUPPO'SABLE, adjective [from suppose.] That may be supposed; that may be imagined to exist. That is not a supposable case.

Supposal

SUPPO'SAL, noun [from suppose.] Position without proof; the imagining of something to exist; supposition.

Interest, with Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom.

Suppose

SUPPOSE, verb transitive suppo'ze. [Latin suppositus, suppono.]

1. To lay down or state as a proposition or fact that may exist or be true, though not known or believed to be true or to exist; or to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration. Let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the consequence?

When we have as great assurance that a thing is, as we could possibly, supposing it were, we ought not to doubt of its existence.

2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all young men, the king's sons; for Ammon only is dead. 2 Samuel 13:32.

3. To imagine; to think.

I suppose

If our proposals once again were heard--

4. To require to exist or be true. The existence of things supposes the existence of a cause of the things.

One falsehood supposes another, and renders all you say suspected.

5. To put one thing by fraud in the place of another. [Not in use.]

SUPPO'SE, noun Supposition; position without proof.

--Fit to be trusted on a bare suppose

That he is honest. [Not in use.]

Supposed

SUPPO'SED, participle passive Laid down or imagined as true; imagined; believed; received as true.

Supposer

SUPPO'SER, noun One who supposes.

Supposing

SUPPO'SING, participle present tense Laying down or imagining to exist or be true; stating as a case that may be; imagining; receiving as true.

Supposition

SUPPOSI'TION, noun The act of laying down, imagining or admitting as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

1. The position of something known not to be true or not proved; hypothesis.

This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is impossible to be false.

2. Imagination; belief without full evidence.

Supposititious

SUPPOSITI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin supposititius, from suppositus, suppono.]

Put by trick in the place or character belonging to another; not genuine; as a supposititious child; a supposititious writing.

Supposititiousness

SUPPOSITI'TIOUSNESS, noun The state of being supposititious.

Suppositive

SUPPOS'ITIVE, adjective Supposed; including or implying supposition.

SUPPOS'ITIVE, noun [supra.] A word denoting or implying supposition.

Suppositively

SUPPOS'ITIVELY, adverb With, by or upon supposition.

Suppository

SUPPOS'ITORY, noun In medicine, a long cylindrical body introduced into the rectum to procure stools when clysters cannot be administered.

Suppress

SUPPRESS', verb transitive [Latin suppressus, supprimo; sub and premo, to press.]

1. To overpower and crush; to subdue; to destroy; as, to suppress a rebellion; to suppress a mutiny or riot; to suppress opposition.

Every rebellion when it is suppressed, makes the subject weaker, and the government stronger.

2. To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress sighs.

3. To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to tell or reveal; as, to suppress evidence.

She suppresses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense.

4. To retain without communication or making public; as, to suppress a letter; to suppress a manuscript.

5. To stifle; to stop; to hinder from circulation; as, to suppress a report.

6. To stop; to restrain; to obstruct from discharges; as, to suppress a diarrhea, a hemorrhage and the like.

Suppressed

SUPPRESS'ED, participle passive Crushed; destroyed; retained; concealed; stopped; obstructed.

Suppressing

SUPPRESS'ING, participle present tense Subduing; destroying; retaining closely; concealing; hindering from disclosure or publication; obstructing.

Suppression

SUPPRES'SION, noun [Latin suppressio.]

1. The act of suppressing, crushing or destroying; as the suppression of a riot, insurrection or tumult.

2. The act of retaining from utterance, vent or disclosure; concealment; as the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence and the like.

3. The retaining of any thing from public notice; as the suppression of a letter or any writing.

4. The stoppage, obstruction or morbid retention of discharges; as the suppression of urine, of diarrhea or other discharge.

5. In grammar or composition, omission; as the suppression of a word.

Suppressive

SUPPRESS'IVE, adjective Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.

Suppressor

SUPPRESS'OR, noun One that suppresses; one that subdues; one that prevents utterance, disclosure or communication.

Suppurate

SUP'PURATE, verb intransitive [Latin suppuro; sub and pus, puris.] To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

SUP'PURATE, verb transitive To cause to suppurate [In this sense, unusual.]

Suppurating

SUP'PURATING, participle present tense Generating pus.

Suppuration

SUPPURA'TION, noun [Latin suppuratio.]

1. The process of generating purulent matter, or of forming pus, as in a wound or abscess; one of the natural terminations of healthy inflammation.

2. The matter generated by suppuration

Suppurative

SUP'PURATIVE, adjective Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.

SUP'PURATIVE, noun A medicine that promotes suppuration.

Supputation

SUPPUTA'TION, noun [Latin supputatio, supputo; sub and puto, to think.]

Reckoning; account; computation.

Suppute

SUPPU'TE, verb transitive [Latin supputo, supra.] To reckon; to compute. [Not in use.]

Supra

SUPRA, a Latin preposition, signifying above, over or beyond.

Supra-Axillary

SUPRA-AX'ILLARY, adjective [supra and axil.] In botany, growing above the axil; inserted above the axil; as a peduncle. [See Suprafoliaceous.]

Supra-Decompound

SUPRA-DECOM'POUND, adjective [supra and decompound.] More than decompound; thrice compound. A supra-decompound leaf, is when a petiole divided several times, connects many leaflets; each part forming a decompound leaf.

Supra-Orbital

SUPRA-ORB'ITAL, adjective [supra and orbit.] Being above the orbit of the eye.

Supraciliary

SUPRACIL'IARY, adjective [Latin supra and cilium, eyebrow.] Situated above the eyebrow.

Suprafoliaceous

SUPRAFOLIA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin supra and folium, a leaf.] In botany, inserted into the stem above the leaf or petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower.

Supralapsarian

SUPRALAPSA'RIAN

SUPRALAP'SARY, adjective [Latin supra and lapsus, fall.]

Antecedent to the apostasy of Adam.

SUPRALAPSA'RIAN, noun One who maintains that God, antecedent to the fall of man or any knowledge of it, decreed the apostasy and all its consequences, determining to save some and condemn others, and that in all he does he considers his own glory only.

Supralapsary

SUPRALAP'SARY, a. [L. supra and lapsus, fall.]

Antecedent to the apostasy of Adam.

Supramundane

SUPRAMUN'DANE, adjective [Latin supra and mundus, the world.]

Being or situated above the world or above our system.

Suprarenal

SUPRARE'NAL, adjective [Latin supra and ren, renes, the kidneys.]

Situated above the kidneys.

Suprascapulary

SUPRASCAP'ULARY, adjective [Latin supra and scapula.] Being above the scapula.

Supravulgar

SUPRAVUL'GAR, adjective [supra and vulgar.] Being above the vulgar or common people.

Supremacy

SUPREM'ACY, noun [See Supreme.] State of being supreme or in the highest station of power; highest authority or power; as the supremacy of the king of Great Britain; or the supremacy of parliament.

The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual men and causes.

Oath of supremacy in Great Britain, an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of the king in spiritual affairs, and renounces or abjures the pretended supremacy of the pope.

Supreme

SUPRE'ME, adjective [Latin supremus, from supra.]

1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in government or power. In the United States, the congress is supreme in regulating commerce and in making war and peace. The parliament of Great Britain is supreme in legislation; but the king is supreme in the administration of the government. In the universe, God only is the supreme ruler and judge. His commands are supreme and binding on all his creatures.

2. Highest, greatest or most excellent; as supreme love; supreme glory; supreme degree.

3. It is sometimes used in a bad sense; as supreme folly or baseness, folly or baseness carried to the utmost extent. [A bad use of the word.]

Supremely

SUPRE'MELY, adverb With the highest authority. He rules supremely

1. In the highest degree; to the utmost extent; as supremely blest.

Sur

SUR, a prefix, from the French, contracted from Latin super, supra, signifies over, above, beyond, upon.

Suraddition

SURADDI'TION, noun Something added to the name. [Not used.]

Sural

SU'RAL, adjective [Latin sura.] Being in or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as the sural artery.

Surance

SU'RANCE, for assurance, not used.

Surbase

SUR'BASE, noun [sur and base.] A border or molding above the base.

Surbased

SUR'BASED, adjective Having a surbase, or molding above the base.

Surbate

SURBA'TE, verb transitive [either Latin sub and battere, or solea, sole, and battere, to beat the sole or hoof.]

1. To bruise or batter the feet by travel.

Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet.

2. To harass; to fatigue.

Surbated

SURBA'TED, participle passive Bruised in the feet; harassed; fatigued.

Surbating

SURBA'TING, participle present tense Bruising the feet of; fatiguing.

Surbeat or surbet, for surbate, not in use.

Surbed

SURBED', verb transitive [sur and bed.] To set edgewise, as a stone; that is in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.

Surcease

SURCE'ASE, verb intransitive

1. To cease; to stop; to be at an end.

2. To leave off; to practice no longer; to refrain finally.

So pray'd he, whilst an angel's voice from high,

Bade him surcease to importune the sky.

[This word is entirely useless, being precisely synonymous with cease, and it is nearly obsolete.]

SURCE'ASE, verb transitive To stop; to cause to cease.

SURCE'ASE, noun Cessation; stop.

Surcharge

SURCH'ARGE, verb transitive

1. To overload; to overburden; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.

Your head reclin'd, as hiding grief from view,

Droops like a rose surcharg'd with morning dew.

2. In law, to overstock; to put more cattle into a common than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.

SURCH'ARGE, noun An excessive load or burden; a load greater than can be well borne.

Surcharged

SURCH'ARGED, participle passive Overloaded; overstocked.

Surcharger

SURCH'ARGER, noun One that overloads or overstocks.

Surcharging

SURCH'ARGING, participle present tense Overloading; burdening to excess; overstocking with cattle or beasts.

Surcingle

SUR'CINGLE, noun [Latin cingulum, a belt.]

1. A belt, band or girth which passes over a saddle, or over any thing laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.

2. The girdle of a cassoc.

Surcingled

SUR'CINGLED, adjective Girt; bound with a surcingle.

Surcle

SUR'CLE, noun [Latin surculus.] A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.

Surcoat

SUR'COAT, noun A short coat worn over the other clothes.

Surcrew

SUR'CREW, noun [sur and crew.] Additional crew or collection. [Not in use.]

Surculate

SUR'CULATE, verb transitive [Latin surculo.] To prune. [Not in use.]

Surculation

SURCULA'TION, noun The act of pruning. [Not in use.]

Surd

SURD, adjective [Latin surdus, deaf.] Deaf; not having the sense of hearing. [Not used.]

1. Upheard. [Not used.]

2. Designating a quantity whose root cannot be exactly expressed in numbers.

SURD, noun In algebra, a quantity whose root cannot be exactly expressed in numbers. Thus 2 is a surd number, because there is no number which multiplied into itself, will exactly produce 2.

Surdity

SURD'ITY, noun Deafness. [Not used.]

Sure

SURE, adjective shure. [Latin assevero, and to be connected with swear, and perhaps with Latin verus; s being the remains of a prefix.]

1. Certain; unfailing; infallible.

The testimony of the Lord is sure Psalms 19:7.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy. 2 Peter 1:10.

2. Certainly knowing, or having full confidence.

We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth-- Romans 2:2.

Now we are sure that thou knowest all things. John 16:30.

3. Certain; safe; firm; permanent.

Thy kingdom shall be sure to thee. Daniel 4:26.

4. Firm; stable; steady; not liable to failure, loss or change; as a sure covenant. 2 Samuel 23:5. Nehemiah 9:38. Isaiah 28:16.

The Lord will make my lord a sure house. 1 Samuel 25:28.

So we say, to stand sure to be sure of foot.

5. Certain of obtaining or of retaining; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health.

6. Strong; secure; not liable to be broken or disturbed.

Go your way, make it as sure as ye can. Math.27.

7. Certain; not liable to failure. The income is sure

To be sure or be sure certainly. Shall you go? be sure I shall.

To make sure to make certain; to secure so that there can be no failure of the purpose or object.

Make sure of Cato.

A peace cannot fail, provided we make sure of Spain.

Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Peter 1:10.

SURE, adverb Certainly; without doubt; doubtless.

SURE the queen would wish him still unknown.

[But in this sense, surely is more generally used.]

Surefooted

SUREFOOT'ED, adjective [sure and foot.] Not liable to stumble or fall; as a surefooted horse.

Surely

SU'RELY, adverb Certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly.

In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:17.

He that created something out of nothing, surely can raise great things out of small.

1. Firmly; without danger of falling.

He that walketh uprightly, walketh surely Proverbs 10:9.

Sureness

SU'RENESS, noun Certainty.

For more sureness he repeats it. [Little used.]

Suretiship

SU'RETISHIP, noun [from surety.] The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for another, and make good any debt or loss which may occur from another's delinquency.

He that hateth suretiship is sure. Proverbs 11:15.

Surety

SU'RETY, noun Certainty; indubitableness.

Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs-- Genesis 15:13.

1. Security; safety.

Yet for the more surety they looked round about.

2. Foundation of stability; support.

We our state

Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds;

On other surety none.

3. Evidence; ratification; confirmation.

She call'd the saints to surety

That she would never put it from her finger,

Unless she gave it to yourself.

4. Security against loss or damage; security for payment.

There remains unpaid

A hundred thousand more, in surety of the which

One part of Aquitain is bound to us.

5. In law, one that is bound with and for another; one who enters into a bond or recognizance to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt or for the performance of some act, and who, in case of the principal debtor's failure, is compellable to pay the debt or damages; a bondsman; a bail.

He that is surety for a stranger, shall smart for it. Proverbs 11:15.

Thy servant became surety for the lad to my father. Genesis 44:32.

6. In Scripture, Christ is called 'the surety of a better testament.' Hebrews 7:22. He undertook to make atonement for the sins of men, and thus prepare the way to deliver them from the punishment to which they had rendered themselves liable.

7. A hostage.

Surf

SURF, noun The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, or upon sand banks or rocks.

1. In agriculture, the bottom or conduit of a drain. [Local.]

Surface

SUR'FACE, noun The exterior part of any thing that has length and breadth; one of the limits that terminates a solid; the superficies; outside; as the surface of the earth; the surface of the sea; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body; the surface of a cylinder; an even or an uneven surface; a smooth or rough surface; a spherical surface

Surfeit

SURFEIT, verb transitive sur'fit. [Latin facio.]

1. To feed with meat or drink, so as to oppress the stomach and derange the functions of the system; to overfeed and produce sickness or uneasiness.

2. To cloy; to fill to satiety and disgust. He surfeits us with his eulogies.

SUR'FEIT, verb intransitive To be fed till the system is oppressed and sickness or uneasiness ensues.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

SUR'FEIT, noun Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned by excessive eating and drinking. He has not recovered from a surfeit

1. Excess in eating and drinking.

Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.

Surfeit-Water

SUR'FEIT-WATER, noun [surfeit and water.] Water for the cure of surfeits.

Surfeited

SUR'FEITED, participle passive Surcharges and oppressed with eating and drinking to excess; cloyed.

Surfeiter

SUR'FEITER, noun One who riots; a glutton.

Surfeiting

SUR'FEITING, participle present tense Oppressing the system by excessive eating and drinking; cloying; loading or filling to disgust.

SUR'FEITING, noun The act of feeding to excess; gluttony. Luke 21:34.

Surge

SURGE, noun [Latin surgo, to rise.]

1. A large wave or billow; great rolling swell of water. [It is not applied to small waves, and is chiefly used in poetry and eloquence.]

He flies aloft, and with impetuous roar,

Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.

2. In ship-building, the tapered part in front of the whelps, between the chocks of a capstan, on which the messenger may surge

SURGE, verb intransitive To swell; to rise high and roll; as waves.

The surging waters like a mountain rise.

1. To slip back, as, the cable surges.

Surgeless

SURGELESS, adjective surj'less. Free from surges; smooth; calm.

Surgeon

SUR'GEON, noun sur'jen. [contracted from chirurgeon.] One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation. In a more general sense, one whose occupation is to cure external diseases, whether by manual operation, or by medicines externally or internally.

Surgery

SUR'GERY, noun Properly, the act of healing by manual operation; or that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body. In a more general sense, the act of healing external diseases by manual operation or by medicines; or that branch of medical science which has for its principal object the cure of external injuries.

Surgical

SUR'GICAL, adjective Pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery.

Surging

SUR'GING, participle present tense Swelling and rolling, as billows.

Surging waves against a solid rock.

Surgy

SUR'GY, adjective Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; as the surgy main.

Suricate

SU'RICATE, noun An animal like the ichneumon; the four toed weasel.

Surlily

SUR'LILY, adverb [from surly.] In a surly, morose manner.

Surliness

SUR'LINESS, noun Gloomy moroseness; crabbed ill nature; as the surliness of a dog.

Surling

SUR'LING, noun A sour morose fellow. [Not in use.]

Surly

SUR'LY, adjective

1. Gloomily morose; crabbed; snarling; sternly sour; rough; cross and rude; as a surly groom; a surly dog.

That surly spirit, melancholy.

2. Rough; dark; tempestuous.

Now soften'd into joy the surly storm.

Surmisal

SURMI'SAL, noun Surmise. [Not in use.]