Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To build or erect upon something.
Wiktionary
- v. To build over or upon (another structure); to erect upon (a foundation).
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To build over or upon another structure; to erect upon a foundation.
Etymologies
- Latin superstructus, past participle of superstruere to build upon; super over + struere to build. See super- and structure. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That hiatus was why I was so suprised to be named one of the “SEHI 19,” 19 folks from the superstruct community chosen to be puppetmasters of a future superstruct game.”
“You shall find, that of old they made carts and other carriages of it; and for piles to superstruct on in boggy grounds; most of Venice, and Amsterdam is built upon them, with so excessive charge, as some report, the foundations of their houses cost as much, as what is erected on them; there being driven in no fewer than 13659 great masts of this timber, under the new Stadt-house of Amsterdam.”
“If struct C inherits from struct D (directly or transitively) we say that struct C is a substruct of struct D and struct D a superstruct of struct C.”
“Vitruvius tells us, that the morasses about Ravenna in Italy, were pil’d with this timber, to superstruct upon, and highly commends it.”
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