not true. Not attaining the deuteroscopy, and second and so is said to super fetale; which, saith Ari. intention of the words, they omit their super- stotle, is because her eggs are hatched in her one consequences and coherences: Brown, after another, Growe. SUPERCRE'SCENCE, ni s. [super and SUPERFETA’TION. x. s. [superfetation, cresco, Latin.] That which grows upon French ; from superfitate.] One coll another growing thing. ception following another, so that both Wherever it groweth, it maintains a regular are in the womb together, but come not figure, like other supercrescences, and like such to their full time for delivery together. as, living upon the stock of others, are termed parasitical plants. Brown, Quines, SUPERE’MINENCE.) R. s. (super and Superfetation must be by abundance of sap in SUPERE'MINENCY.S the bough that putteth it forth. Baconi enrineo, Latin.) If the so perfettiin be made with considerable Uncommon degree of eminence; emi- intermission, the latter most commonly becomes nence above others though eminent. abortive; for the first being confirmed engrossa The archbishop of Canterbury, as he is pri- eth the aliment from the other. Brown. mate over all England, and metropolitan, has a SU'PERFICF.n.s. (super cie, Fr. superficies, superominency, and even some power over the Latin.] Outside ; surface. archbishop of York. Aylpe. Then if it rise not to the former height SUPER E'MINENT. adj. [super and eminent.) Of superfice, conclude that soil is light. Dryden, Eminent in a high degree. SUPERFICIAL. adj. [superjiciel, Fr. from As humility is in suiters a decent virtue, so superficies, Latin.] the testification thercof by such effectual acknowledgments not only argueth a sound appre 1. Lying on the surface ; not reaching behension of his supereminent glory, and majesty low the surface. before whom we stand, but putteth also into his That, upon the superficial ground, heat and hands a kind of pledge or bond for security moisture cause putrefaction, in England is found Bacom against our unthankfulness. Hooker. SUPERE'MINENTLY. adv. [from super From these phænomena several have coo cluded some general rupture in the superficial eminent.] In the most eminent manner. parts of the earth. Burnet. TO SUPER E'ROGATE. V. n. (super and There is not one infidel living so ridiculous as erogatio, Lat.] To do more than duty to pretend to solve the phænomena of sight, or requires. cogitation, by those fleeting superficial tilms of So by an abbey's skeleton of late, bodies. Bartly. I heard an eccho supererogate, 2. Shallow; contrived to cover something Through imperfection, and the voice restore, This superficial tale As if she had the hiccup o'er and o'er. Is but a preface to her worthy praise. Shokop. Cleavcland. 3. Shallow; not profound; smattering, Aristotle acted his own instructions, and his not learned. obsequious sectators have supererogated in ob- Their knowledge is so very superficial, and so Glanville. SUPEREROGA'Tiox. n. s. [from superero ill-grounded, that it is impossible for them to describe in what consists the beauty of those gate.] Performance of more than duty works. Driden, requires. SUPERFICIA’LITY. 1. s. [from superficial.) There is no such thing as works of superero- The quality of being superficial. gation; no man can do more than needs, and is By these salts the colours of bodies receive his duty to do, by way of preparation for an- degrees of lustre or obscurity, superpciality or other world. Tillotson. Bour. SUPERE'ROGATORY. adj.[from superero. SUPERFICIALLY.adı.[from sriperficial.] gate.] Performed beyond the strict de- 1. On the surface; not below the surface. mands of duty. 2. Without penetration; without close Supererogatory services, and too great benefits heed. from subjects to kings, are of dangerous conse- Perspective hath been with some diligence in quence. Howel. quired; but the nature of sounds in general liab SUPER EXALTATION. n. s. [super and been superficially observed. Buona exalt.] Elevation above the common His evt so superficially surveys rate. These things, as not to mind from whence they In a superexaltation of courage, they seem as grow, greedy of death as of victory. Holiday Deep under ground. Miltem. SUPERŁ'XCELLENT, adj. (super and ex 3. Without going deep; without searchcellent.) Excellent beyond common de. ing to the bottom of things. You have said well; grees of excellence. We discern not the abuse; suffer him to per But on the cause and question now in hand suade us that we are as gods, something so sice Have gloz'd but superficially. Sbal:peare. I have laid down superficially my present perexcellent, that all must reverence and adore. Decay of Piety. Dryden. SUPEREXCRESCENCE. n. š. [super and SUPERFICIALNEss. n. s. [from superexcrescence.] Something superfluously ficial.] growing. 1. Shallowness; position on the surface. As the escar separated between the scarifica 2. Slight knowledge ; false appearance ; tions, I rubbed the superexcrescence of flesh with show without substance. the vitrioi stone. Wiseman. SUPERFICIES. n. s. [Latin.] Outside; TO SUPERTEʻTATE. V. n. (super and fætus, surface; superfice. Latin.) To conceive after conception. He on her superficies stretch'd his line. Sandru. The female brings forth twice in one month, A convex mirrour makes objects in the middle servance. Baron, use. to come out from the superficies: the painter SUPERFLUX. n. s. [super and fluxus, must, in respect of the light and shadows of his Latin.] That which is more than ia figures, give them more relievo. Dryden. SUPERFI'NE. adj. (super and fire.] Emi wanted. Take physick, pomp ; nently fine. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, Some, by this journey of Jason, understand That thou may'st shake the superflux to them. the mystery of the philosopher's stone; to which Sbakspeare. also other superfine chymists draw the twelve la- SUPERHU'MAN, adj. (super and kumanus, bours of Hercules. L'Estrange. Latin,] Above the nature or power of between a candle and your eye, to be very man, transparent, it may be called superfine. Mortimer. SUPERIMPREGNA'TION. 1. s. [super and SUPERFLU'ENCE. n. s. [super and fluo, impregnation.) Superconception; superLatin.] More than is necessary; fetation. The superfluence of grace is ordinarily propor- SUPERINCU'M BENT. adj. (super and intioned to the faithful discharge of former trusts, cambers, Latin.] Lying on the top of making use of the foregoing sufficient grace. something else. Hammond. SUPERFLU'ITANCE. n. It is sometimes so extremely violent, that it s. [super and forces the superincumbent strata ; breaks then fi uito, Lat.] The act of Aoating above. throughout, and thereby perfectly undermines Spermaceti, which is a superfluitance on the and ruins their foundations. Woodward. sea, is not the sperm of a while. Brown. To SUPERINDU'CE. v. a. (super and in A chalky earth, beaten and steeped in water, affordeth a cream or fatness on the top, and a duco, Latin.) gross subsidence at the bottom: out of the 1. To bring in as an addition to something cream, or superfluitance, the finest dishes are else. made; out of the residence, the coarser. Brown. To superinduce any virtue upon a person, take SUPERFLU'ITANT. adj. [superfluitans, the living creature in which that virtue is most Latin.] Floating above. eminent. SUPERFLU'ITY. n. s. [superfluité, Fr. Custom and corruption superinduce upon us a kind of necessity of going on as we began. from superfluous.] More than enough ; L'Estrange, plenty beyond use or necessity. Not in Father is a notion superinduced to the sub stance or man, and refers only to an act of that Having this way eased the church, as they thing called man, whereby he contributed to the thought, of superfluity, they went on till they generation of one of his own kind, let man be had plucked up even those things which also had what it will. Locke. taken a great deal deeper root. Hooker. Long custom of sinning superinduces upon the They are as sick that surfeit with too much, soul new and absurd desires, like the distemper as they that starve with nothing; therefore it is of the soul, feeding only upon filth and corrupe no mean happiness to be seated in the mean: South, superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but com- 2.. To bring on as a thing not originally petency lives longer. Shakspeare. belonging to that on which it is brought. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred be- Relation is not contained in the real existence fore a troubled superfluity. Suckling of things, but something extraneous and superLike the sun, let bounty spread her ray, induced. Locke. And shine that superfluity away. Pope. In children, savages, and ill-natured people, SUPE'RFLUOus. adj. [super and fiuo, Lät. learning not having cast their native thoughts superflu, French.] Exuberant; more into new moulds, nor, by suporinducing foreign than enough; unnecessary; offensive by doctrines, confounded those fair characters na ture had written, their innate notions might lie being more than sufficient. open. Locke. I think it superfluous to use any words of a sub- SUPERINDU'CTION. n. s. [from super and ject so praised in itself as it needs no praises. Sidney. induce.] The act of superinducing. When a thing ceaseth to be available unto the A good inclination is but the first rude draught end which gave it being, the continuance of it of virtue; the superinduction of ill habits quickly must then appear superfluous. Hooker. South. Our superfluous lacqueys and our peasants, SUPER IN JE'CTION. n. so (super and inWho in unnecessary action swarm jection.) An injection succeeding anAbout our squares of battle. Shakspeare. other. Dict. A proper title of a peace, and purchas'd SUPERINSTITUTION. ». s. [super and At a superfluous rate. Sbakspeare. As touching the ministring to the saints, it is institution. In law.] One institution upsuperfluous to write. 2 Corintbians, on another; as if A be instituted and 'Horace will our superfiuous branches prune, admitted to a benefice upon a title, and Give us new rules, and set our harps in tune. B be instituted and admitted by the Roscommon. Bailey. Why ask ye, and superfluous begin TO SUPERINTE'ND. v. a. [super and Your message, like to end as much in vain ? intend.] To oversee ; to overlook; to Milton. take care of others with authority. His conscience cheard him with a life well The king will appoint a council, who may site spent, perintend the works of this nature, and regulate His priidence a superfluous something lent, what concerns the colonies. Bacon. Which made the poor who took, and poor who This argues design, and a superintending wis. gave, content. Harte. dom, power and providence in this special busiSUPE'R FLUOUSNESS. n. s. [from super Derban. fluous.] The state of being superfluous. Angels, good or bad, must be furnished with tion, a ye know, ness of food. prodigious knowledge, to oversee Persia and From amidst them forth he passid, Grecia of old; or if any such superintend the af- Long way through hostile scorn; which he fairs of Great Britain now. Watts. sustain'd SUPERINTE'NDENCE. I n. s. [from super Superior, nor of violence fear'd ought, Milton. SUPERINTE'NDENCY.S and intend.] Here passion first I felt, Commotion strange! in all enjoyments else Superiour care; the act of overseeing Superior and unmov'd. Milion. with authority. There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy Such an universal superintendency has the eye than a great man superiour to his sufferings. and hand of Providence over all, even the most Spectater. minute and inconsiderable things. South. SUPE'RIOUR. n. s. One more excellent or The divine providence, which hath a visible dignised than another. respect to the being of every man, is yet more observablc in its superintendency over societies. T'hose under the great officers of state have Grew. more frequent opportunities for the exercise of An admirable indication of the divine super benevolence than their superiours. Spectator. intendence and management. Derham. SUPERLATION. n. s. [superlatio, Latin.] SUPERINTENDENT,n. s. n. s.[superintendant, Exaltation of any thing beyond truth or French ; from superintend.) One who propriety. overlooks others authoritatively. There are words that as much raise a style as Next to Brama, one Deuendre is the superin- others can depressit; superlation and overmuchtendent deity, who hath many more under him. ness amplities: it may be above faith, but not Stillingfleet. above a mean. Ben Jeasen, The world pays a natural veneration to men of virtue, and rejoice to see themselves con SUPE'RLATIVE. adj. [superlatif, Fr. sxi• ducted by those who act under the care of a perlativus, Latin.) Supreme Being, and who think themselves ac- 1. Implying or expressing the highest decountable to the great Judge and Superintendent gree. of human affairs. Addison. It is an usual way to give the superlative unto SUPERIO'R I TY, n. s. [from superiour.] things of eminence; and, when a thing is very Pre-eminence; the quality of being great, presently to define it to be the greatest of all. Brouca. greater or higher than another in any Some have a violent and turgid manner of respect. talking and thinking; they are always in exBellarmine makes the formal act of adoration tremes, and pronounce concerning every thing to be swojection to a superiour ; but he makes in the superlative. Watk. the mere apprehension of excellency to include the formal reason of it; whereas mere excel 2. Rising to the highest degree. lency without superiority doth not require any The high court of parliament in England is Bacon subjection, but only estimation. Stilling fleet. superlative. T'ie person who advises, does in that par Martyrdoms I reckon amongst miracles; beticular exercise a superiority over us, thinking cause they seem to exceed the strength of huus defective in our conduct or understanding. man nature; and I may do the like of superlative and admirable holiness. Bacor. Spectator. SUPE'RIOUR. adj. [supérieur, French; The generality of its reception is with many the persuading argument of its superletier de. superior, Latin.] sert; and common judges measure excellency by 1. Higher; greater in dignity or excel- numbers. Glanville. lence; preferable or preferred to an- Ingratitude and compassion never cohabit in other. the same breast; which shews the superlative In commending another, you do yourself malignity of this vice, and the baseness of the richt; for he that you commend is either super mind in which it dwells. Sextb. riour to you in that you commend, or inferiour: SUPE'RLATIVELY. adv. [from superlaif he be inferiour, if he be to be commended, tive.] you much more: if he be superiour, if he be not to be commended, you much less g!orious. 1. In a manner of speech expressing the Bacon. highest degree: Although superior to the people, yet not supc I shall not speak superlatively of them; but rior to their own voluntary engagements once that I may truly say, they are second to none in Taylor. the christian world. Bares, passed from them. Heaven takes part with the oppressed, and 2. In the highest degree. tyrants are upon their bchaviour to a superior Tiberius was bad enough in his youth; but power. L'Estrange. superlatively and monstrously so in his old age; Superior beings above us, who enjoy perfect happiness, are more steadily determined in their The Supreme Being is a spirit most excellently choice of good than we, and yet they are not less glorious, superlatively powerful, wise and good, happy or less free than we are. Locke. Creator of all things. Bentley He laughs at men of far superior understand- SUPE'R LA TIVENESS. n. s. [from superla. ings to his, for not being as well dressed as himselt. Stvift. tive.] The state of being in the highest 2. Upper ; higher locally. degree. By the refraction of the second prism, the SUPERLU'NAR. adj. [super and lung.) breadth of the image was not increased; but its Not sublunary; placed above the moon; superior part, which in the first prism suffered not of this world. the greater refraction, and appeared violet and The mind, in metaphysicks, at a loss, blue, did again in the second prism sotter a May wander in a wilderness of moss; greater refraction than its inferiour part, which The head that turns at stiperlunar things; appeared red and yellow. Newton. Pois’d with a tail, may steer ou Wilkins' sings 3. Free from emotion or concern ; UNCON Pope quered ; unaffected. SUPE'RN A L. adj. [supernus, Latin.] South ܪ 1. Having a higher position; locally above In sixty-three years there may be lost eigh teen days, omitting the intercalation of one day us. By heaven and earth was meant the solid every fourth year, allowed for this quadrant or six hours supernumerary. Brown, matter and substance, as well of all the heavens and orbs supernal, as of the globe of the earth, The odd or supernumerary six hours are not and waters which covered it. Raleigh. Holder. 2. Relating to things above; placed above; Besides occasional and supernumerary adcelestial; heavenly. dresses, Hammond's certain perpetual returns Thai supernal Judge that stirs good thoughts exceeded David's seven times a day. Fell. In any breast of strong authority, The produce of this tax is adequate to the To look into the blots and stains of right. Shaks. services for which it is designed, and the adHe with frequent intercourse ditional tax is proportioned to the supernumerary Thither will send his winged messengers, expence this year. Addison, On errands of supernai grace. Milton. Antiochus began to augment his feet; but Both glorying to have scap'd the Stygian food, the Roman senate ordered his supernumerary As gods, and by their own recover'd strength, vessels to be burnt. Arbuthnot. Not by the suff'rance of supernal power. Milt. A supernumerary canon is one who does not SUPERNA’TANT. adj. (supernatans, receive any of the profits or emoluments of the Latin.] Swimming above. church, but only lives and serves there on a fuWhilst the substance continued fluid, I could ture expectation of some prebcnd. Ayliffe. shake it with the supernatant menstruum, with- SU'PER PLANT. n. 5. ( super and plant.) A out making between them any true union. plant growing upon another plant. Bayle. No superplant is a formed piant but misletoe. SUPER NATATION. 1. s. [from supernato, Bacon. Lat.] The act of swimming on the top SU'PERFLUSAGE. 1. 5. [super and plus, of any thing. Lat.) Something more than enough. Touching the supernatation of bodies, take of After this there yet remained a superplusage aquafortis two ounces, of quicksilver two drams, for the assistance of the neighbouring parishes. the dissolution will not bear a fiint as big as a Fell. nutmeg. Bacon. To SUPER PO'N DERATE. v. a. (super and Bodies are differenced by supernatation, as pondero, Lat.] To weigh over and above. floating on water; for chrystal will sink' in Dict. water, as carrying in its own bulk a greater SUPER PROPO'RTION. n. s. [super and ponderosity than the space of any water it doth occupy; and will therefore only swim in molten proportio, Lat.) Overplus of proportion. metal and quicksilver. Brown. No defect of velocity, which requires as great SUPERNA’TURAL. adj. [super and na- a superproportion in the cause, can be overcome in an instant. tural.] Being above the powers of na Digly. SUPER PURGATION.n. s.[superpurgation, ture. There resteth either no way unto salvation, Fr. super and purgation.] More purga. or, if any, then surely a way which is supern tion than enough. tural, a way which could never have entered There happening a superpurgation, he declined into the heart of a man, as much as once to the repeating of that purge. Wiseman, conceive or imagine, it God himself had not re- SUPER REFLE'XION. n. s. [super and revealed it extraordinarily; for which cause we flexion.] Reflection of an image reterm it the mystery or secret way of salvation. Hected. Place one glass before and another behind, When supernatural duties are necessarily ex you shall see the glass behind with the image acted, natural are not rejected as needless. within the glass before, and again the glass bea Hocker. fore in that, and divers such superreflexions, till The understanding is secured by the per the species speciei at last die. Bacon, fection of its own nature, or by supernatural assistance. Tillotson. SUPERSA'LIENCY. n. s. [super and salio, No man can give any rational account how ii Lat. This were better written superis posssible that such a general Hood should siliency.] Tlic act of leaping upon any come, by any natural means. And if it be supernatural, that grants the thing I am proving, thing: Their coition is by supersaliency, like that of namely, such a supreme being as can alter the horses. coure of nature. Wilkins. Brown, What mists of providence are these, To SUPERSCRIBE.v.a. (super and seribo, Through which we cannot see? Lat.] To inscribe upon the top or outSo saints by supernatural power set free side. Are left at last in martyrdom to die. Dryden. Fabretti and others believe, that by the tico SUPERNA’TURALLY. adv. (from super- Fortunes were only meant in general the godnatural.] In a manner above the course dess who sent prosperity or afflictions, and duce in their behalf an ancient monument, sior power of nature. The Son of God came to do every thing in perscribed. Addison. miracle, to love supernaturally, and to pardon in SÚPERSCRIPTION. n. s. [super and scripfinitely, and even to lay down the Sovereign tio, Latin.] while he assumed the Saviour. Soutb. 1. The'act of superscribing. SUPERNUʻMERARY. adj.[supernumeraire, 2. That which is written on the top or Fr. super and numerus, Lat.) Being above outside. a stated, a necessary, an usual, or a Doth this churlish superscription round number. Portend some alteration in good will. Sbaksp. Well if thrown out, as supernumerary Read me the superscrittion of these letters; I Tomy just number found! Milton. know not which is which. Sbakspeare. 2 proa art, Bacon. a. No superscriptions of fame, 1. Addicted to superstition ; full of idle Of honour or good name. Suckling fancies or scruples with regard to reI learn of my experience, not by talk, How counterfeit a coin they are who friends ligion. Bear in their superscription; in prosperous days At the kindling of the fire, and lighting of They swarm, but in adverse withdraw their head. candles, they say certain prayers, and use some Milton, other superstitivus rites, which shew that they hoe It is enough her stone nour the tire and the light. Sparser. May honour'd be with superscription Have I Of the sole lady, who had power to move Been out of fondness superstitious to him? The great Northumberland. Waller. Sbakspeare. Nature's own work it seem'd, nature taught To SUPERSE'DE. v. a. (super and sedeo, Lat.) To make void or inefficacious by And, to a superstitious eye, the haunt superiour power; to set aside. Of wood-gods and wood-inymphs. Miltos, Passion is the drunkenness of the mind, and A venerable wood, therefore in its present workings not controul Where rites divine were paid, whose holy hair able by reason; for as much as the proper etiect Was kept and cut with superstitious care. Dryd. of it is, for the time, to supersede the workings of 2. Over-accurate; scrupulous beyond need. reason. South. SUPERSTI'SIOUSLY. adv. [from superstie In this genuine acceptation of chance, nothing tious.] is supposed that can supersede the known laws of 1. In a superstitious manner; with erronenatural motion. Bentley SUPERSE'DE AS. n. s. [In law.] ous religion. A writ which lieth in divers and suns There reigned in this island a king, whose memory of all others we most adore; not super• dry cases; in all which it signifies a com- stitiously, but as a divine instrument. mand or request to stay or forbear the 2. With too much care. doing of that which in appearance of Neither of these methods should be too SCTU. law were to be done, were it not for the pulously and superstitiously pursued. W'atts. To SUPERSTRAIN, V. cause whereupon the writ is granted : (super and for example, a man regularly is to have strain.] To strain beyond the just surety of peace against him of whom stretch. he will swear that he is afraid ; and In the straining of a string, the further it is strained, the less superstraining goeth to a note. the justice required hereunto cannot Bacon deny him: yet if the party be formerly To SUPERSTRU'CT. v. a. [superstruo, bound to the pe?ce, in chancery or else superstructus, Lat.) To build upon any where, this writ lieth to stay the justice thing. from doing that which otherwise he Two notions of fundamentals may be conceirmight not deny. Cowell. ed, one signifying that whereon our eternal bliss The far distance of this county from the court is immediately superstructed, the other whereon hath atorded it a super sedeas from takers and our obedience to ihe faith of Christ is founded. purveyours. Carew. Hammond. If his habit of sin have not corrupted his prin. SUPERSE'R VICEABLE. adj. [super and ciples, the vicious christian may ihink it reae serviceable.] Overofficious; more than sonable to reform, and the preacher may hope is necessary or required. (0 super struct good life upon such a foundation. A glass-gazing, suporserviceablo, finical rogue. Harmond'. Shakspeare. This is the only proper basis on which to sito SUPERSTI'TION. n. s. [superstition, Fr. perstruct first innocency, and then virtue. superstitio, Latin.] Decay of Pidy. 1. Unnecessary fear or scruples in reli. SUPERSTRU'CTION. n. s. [from supergion; observance of unnecessary and un struct.] An edifice raised on any thing. commanded rites or practices; religion I want not to improve the honour of the live ing by impairing that of the dead; and my own without morality. profession hath taught me not to erect new sezo A rev'rent fear, such superstition reigns Denban. Among the rude, ev'n then possess'd the swains. SÚPERSTRUCTIVE, adj. [from super perstructions upon an old ruin. Dryden. 2. Rite or practice proceeding from scru struct.] Built upon something else. He that is so sure of his particular election, as pulous or timorous religion. In this to resolve he can never fail, must necessarily resense it is plural. solve, that what were drunkenness in another, They the truth is not so in him; and nothing but the removing With superstitions and traditions taint. Miltor. his fundamental error can rescue him from the If we had a religion that consisted in absurd Jeperstructive, be it never so gross. superstitions, that had no regard to the perfection of our nature, people might well be glad to SUPERSTRU'CTURE. 1.5. ( super and struchave some part of their life excused from it. tur.] That which is raised or built upor Law. something else. 3. False religion ; reverence of beings not He who builds upon the present, builds upon proper objects of reverence; false wor- the narrow compass of a point; and where the ship. foundation is so narrow, the superstructure can not be high and strong too. Sostb, They had certain questions against him of their own superstition, Acts. Purgatory was not known in the primitive 4. Over-nicety; exactness too scrupulous. church, and is a superstructure upon the christian religion. Tillotson. SUPERSTI'Tious. adj. [superstitieux, Fr. You have added to your natural endowment superstitiosus, Latin.] the superstructures of study. Drzda Hammondo |