Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SU-PER-CON-CEP'TION, n. [super and conception.]

A conception after a former conception. – Brown.

SU-PER-CON'SE-QUENCE, n. [super and consequence.]

Remote consequence. [Not used.] – Brown.

SU-PER-CRES'CENCE, n. [L. super and crescens.]

That which grows upon another growing thing. – Brown.

SU-PER-CRES'CENT, a. [supra.]

Growing on some other growing thing. – Johnson.

SU-PER-DOM'IN-ANT, n.

In music, the sixth of the key, in the descending scale.

SU-PER-EM'I-NENCE, or SU-PER-EM'I-NEN-CY, n. [L. super and emineo.]

Eminence superior to what is common; distinguished eminence; as, the supereminence of Cicero as an orator; the supereminence of Dr. Johnson as a writer, or of Lord Chatham as a statesman.

SU-PER-EM'I-NENT, a.

Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ.

SU-PER-EM'I-NENT-LY, adv.

In a superior degree of excellence; with unusual distinction.

SU-PER-ER'O-GANT, a.

Supererogatory, – which see. – Stackhouse.

SU-PER-ER'O-GATE, v.i. [L. super and erogatio, erogo.]

To do more than duty requires. Aristotle's followers have supererogated in observance. [Little used.] – Glanville.

SU-PER-ER-O-GA'TION, n. [supra.]

Performance of more than duty requires. There is no such thing as works of supererogation. – Tillotson.

SU-PER-E-ROG'A-TIVE, a.

Supererogatory. [Not much used.] – Stafford.

SU-PER-E-ROG'A-TO-RY, a.

Performed to an extent not enjoined or not required by duty; as, supererogatory services. – Howell.

SU-PER-ES-SEN'TIAL, a. [super and essential.]

Essential above others, or above the constitution of a thing. – Pausanias, Trans.

SU-PER-EX-ALT', v.t. [super and exalt.]

To exalt to a superior degree. – Barrow.

SU-PER-EX-ALT-A'TION, n. [super and exaltation.]

Elevation above the common degree. – Holiday.

SU-PER-EX-ALT'ED, pp.

Exalted to a superior degree.

SU-PER-EX-ALT'ING, ppr.

Exalting to a superior degree.

SU-PER-EX'CEL-LENCE, n. [super and excellence.]

Superior excellence.

SUPER-EX'CEL-LENT, a.

Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent. – Decay of Piety.

SU-PER-EX-CRES'CENCE, n. [super and excrescence.]

Something superfluously growing. – Wiseman.

SU-PER-FE-CUND'I-TY, n. [super and fecundity.]

Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species. – Paley.

SU-PER-FE'TATE, v.i. [L. super and fœtus.]

To conceive after a prior conception. The female is said to superfetate. – Grew.

SU-PER-FE-TA'TION, n.

A second conception after a prior one, and before the birth of the first, by which two fetuses are growing at once in the same womb. – Howell.

SU'PER-FETE, v.i.

To superfetate. [Little used.] – Howell.