superaddition
(ˌs(j)uːpərəˈdɪʃən)
[f. superadd, after addition.]
1. The action (or an act) of superadding, or the condition of being superadded; further addition. Often a mere strengthening of addition: cf. superadd 1.
| 1609 Bible (Douay) Ezek. iii. comm., More grace added to the former which was sufficient before, and by this superaddition is made effectual. 1664 Power Exp. Philos. i. 74 By a super-addition of the oyl of Vitriol, you may re-tincture as before. 1753 Johnson Adventurer No. 115 ¶15 If his topics be probable and persuasory, that he be able to recommend them by the superaddition of elegance and imagery. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 408 With all these powers, in superaddition to his own character. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 364 With a further increase of vascular tension and the superaddition of hypertrophy of the heart, the dropsy will lessen or cease. |
2. Something superadded; a further addition.
| 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. Disc. i. §12 Virtue being superaddition to Nature. 1662 Gunning Lent Fast 63 One part of the Aerians superaddition to the Arrian heresie. 1714 Steele Lover No. 29 (1723) 170 He hath so clogg'd it, and sophisticated it with Superadditions, that it may be he hath altered the Nature..of it. a 1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. xv. (1870) 226 A superaddition to, not a constituent of, man's moral existence. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 256 The ultimate composition of the lardaceous superaddition is that of the protein bodies. |
So ˌsuperaˈdditional, † ˌsuperaˈdditionary adjs., of the nature of a superaddition.
| 1637 Bastwick Litany iv. Title-p., More Articles superadditionall vpon superadditionall. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 35 A simple mineral salt..without any superadditionary additaments. 1847 P. Fairbairn Typol. Script. i. i. 3 What might now be regarded as fundamental,..must have been, to a considerable extent, super-additional. |