Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, applied to a liquid which flows above something else, as fresh water upon salt at the mouth of the Amazon, or one lava-stream upon an older flow.
- Floating on the surface.
- Abundant; in profusion; superfluous.
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Examples
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Only, where the superfluent lake, the spongy putrescence,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Only, where the superfluent lake, the spongy putrescence,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Only, where the superfluent lake, the spongy putrescence, 10
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Such an one, townsman of mine, I want from thy bridge to be pitched in the sludge head over heels, right where the lake of all its stinking slime is dankest and most superfluent -- a deep-sunk abyss.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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Robbing all worlds of many an angel soul, With its light hidden in its breast, which burns With all concentrate and superfluent woe. "
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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