The quality or state of being supernatural.
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A person or thing beyond the number stated.
Supraoccipital.
A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.
The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.
See Peroxide.
Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4.
Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10.
An acid phosphate.
Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.
A plant growing on another, as the mistletoe; an epiphyte.
To please exceedingly.
Surplus.
Surplusage.
More than politic; above or exceeding policy.
To wiegh over and above.
Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.
To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry.
To praise to excess.
Overplus or excess of proportion.
Excessive purgation.
The reflection of a reflected image or sound.
More than regal; worthy of one greater than a king.
To reward to an excessive degree.
Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the sacrum.
The act of leaping on anything.
Leaping upon.
An acid salt. See Acid salt (a), under Salt, n.
To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution.
The operation of supersaturating, or the state of being supersaturated.
To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter.
Superscription.
The act of superscribing.
Being above the world, or secular things.
To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ.
The act of superseding, or setting aside; supersession; as, the supersedure of trial by jury.
To sow, as seed, over something previously sown.
The sowing of seed over seed previously sown.
Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.
Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive.
Supersensible.
Supersensible.
Overofficious; doing more than is required or desired.
The act of superseding, or the state of being superseded; supersedure.
Above the sun.
Moving at a speed greater than the speed of sound in air; -- this speed varies with altitude, since the speed of sound varies with altitude, as well as with temperature and humidity, being approximately 1129 feet per second at sea level and 984 feet per second at 16 miles altitude.
Situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
Supraspinuos.
An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
One addicted to superstition.
Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances.
To overstrain.
A stratum, or layer, above another.
To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation.
The act of superstructing, or building upon.
Built or erected on something else.
One who builds a superstructure.
Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively.
More than substantial; spiritual.
Too subtle.
An acid sulphate.
Supersulphurized.
To impregnate or combine with an excess of sulphur.
A tax in addition to the usual or normal tax; specif., in the United Kingdom, an income tax of sixpence for every pound in addition to the normal income tax of one shilling and twopence for every pound, imposed, by the Finance Act of 1909-1910 (c. 8, ss 66, 72), on the amount by which the income of any person exceeds /3,000 when his total income exceeds /5,000.
That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.
Being above ground.
Being above ground, or above the earth.
Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth.
The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale.
Tragical to excess.
The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.
Serving no purpose; superfluous; needless.
To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.
Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards.
The act of supervening.
Supervision.
Supervision; inspection.
The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.
Supervisory.
One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.
To survive; to outlive.
Having a plaited and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning-glory.
The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward. The act or state of lying with the face upward. Opposed to pronation.
A muscle which produces the motion of supination.
A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.
Supineness.
What may be supped; pottage.
The act of enticing by soft words; enticement.
The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation.
To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite.
See Supawn.
Being under the feet.
To supply; to furnish.
Supply; aid afforded.
To supply with supper.
Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed.
The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.
To replace.
To trip up.
The act of supplanting or displacing.
One who supplants.
To become soft and pliant.
Having a limber tongue.
A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also, a walking stick made from its stem.
In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly.
To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.
The act of supplementing.
The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
That which is to supply what is wanted.
Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.
The act of supplying; a supply.
Supplication; entreaty.
One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
Supplication.
One who supplicates; a suppliant.
A petition; esp., a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.
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