Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to household furniture; hence, ornamental.
- n. An article of household furniture; hence, an ornament.
Examples
“At times the river would rise in one of its periodical furies, and sweep away a pier or two with the superincumbent houses; at others the wooden supporters of the structure would catch fire by some untoward event, and the inhabitants had the choice of being fried or drowned, along with their penates and their supellectile property.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
“Typis exscriptorum ex Libraria quadam supellectile, Norimbergæ collecta et observata, Millenarius”
“RAWLINSONUS; cujus peritiam in supellectile libraria, animique magnitudinem, nemo fere hominum eruditorum unquam attigit, quod tamen vix agnoscet seculum ingratum.”
“Imo ne pugnare quidem, sed auro et cuncta supellectile vitam redimere. ”
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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super-kawy Of the nature of or relating to furniture. May 7, 2009