superadd

verb

superadd

verb

/ˌsuːpəɹˈæd/

Etymology From super- + add.

1

To add on top of a previous addition.

  • To our antiquarian interest in poor Jocelin and his Convent, where the whole aspect of existence, the whole dialect, of thought, of speech, of activity, is so obsolete, strange, long-vanished, there now superadds itself a mild glow of human interest for Abbot Samson […]1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Abbot Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
  • Locke's claim that God may superadd to matter a faculty of thinking allows us to usefully relabel our problem[…]2007, Lex Newman, The Cambridge companion to Locke's "Essay concerning human understanding":
Derived terms
superaddedly, superaddition

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