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Webster 1913 Edition
Superadd
Suˊper-add′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Superadded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Superadding
.] To add over and above; to add to what has been added; to annex, as something extrinsic.
The strength of any living creature, in those external motion, is something distinct from, and
superadded
unto, its natural gravity. Bp. Wilkins.
The peacock laid it extremely to heart that he had not the nightingale’s voice
superadded
to the beauty of his plumes. L'Estrange.
Webster 1828 Edition
Superadd
SUPERADD'
,Verb.
T.
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.
Definition 2024
superadd
superadd
English
Verb
superadd (third-person singular simple present superadds, present participle superadding, simple past and past participle superadded)
- (transitive) To add on top of a previous addition.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. IX, Abbot Samson
- To our antiquarian interest in poor Jocelin and his Convent, where the whole aspect of existence, the whole dialect, of thought, of speech, of activity, is so obsolete, strange, long-vanished, there now superadds itself a mild glow of human interest for Abbot Samson […]
- 2007, Lex Newman The Cambridge companion to Locke's "Essay concerning human understanding"
- Locke's claim that God may superadd to matter a faculty of thinking allows us to usefully relabel our problem. . .
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. IX, Abbot Samson