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Webster 1828 Edition


Supervacaneously

SUPERVACA'NEOUSLY

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adv.
Needlessly.

Definition 2024


supervacaneously

supervacaneously

English

Adverb

supervacaneously (comparative more supervacaneously, superlative most supervacaneously)

  1. In a way that is supervacaneous; needlessly; redundantly; superfluously.
    • 1879, William T, Harris, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume XIII,
      To Kant, the multiple connected with the house is quite as objective as the multiple connected with the ship ; but that he attributes to the category of quantity, and not, laboriously and supervacaneously, like Schopenhauer, to the various causal relations of the eye in movement.