Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SU-PER-STRUCT'
SU-PER-STRA'TUMSU-PER-STRUCT'ED
SU-PER-STRUCT', v.t. [L. superstruo; super and struo, to lay.]
To build upon; to erect. This is the only proper basis on which to so superstruct first innocence then virtue. [Little used.] – Decay of Piety.
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