superincumbent

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Every one has observed those sloping declivities, composed of the washings of torrents, the débris of precipices, and what may be termed the constant drippings of perpendicular eminencies and which lie like broad buttresses at their feet, forming a sort of foundation or basement for the superincumbent mass.

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  1. adjective Lying or resting on or above something.

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  • That the wild outbursts of insurrection midway in the fifth decade failed and died away was not surprising, for the superincumbent deposits of tradition and convention were thick. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Every one has observed those sloping declivities, composed of the washings of torrents, the débris of precipices, and what may be termed the constant drippings of perpendicular eminencies and which lie like broad buttresses at their feet, forming a sort of foundation or basement for the superincumbent mass. —  The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons
  • He set to work removing the superincumbent mass. —  A Pair of Blue Eyes
  • We passed the two ruined huts of Peavey, the roofs crushed by the superincumbent snow. —  Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
  • Many structures of this kind fall of their own superincumbent weight and clumsiness. —  Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post
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  1. Latin superincumbēns, superincumbent-, present participle of superincumbere, to lie on top of : super-, super- + incumbere, to lie down; see incumbent.

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  1. from Latin superincumben(t-)s, present participle of superincumbere, lay or east oneself upon, from super, over, + incumbere, lie upon: see incumbent.
 

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