superadd, v.
(s(j)uːpərˈæd)
[ad. L. superaddĕre: see super- 13 and add v.]
1. trans. To add over and above; to add to what has been added; to put as a further addition. Often a mere strengthening of add: To add besides; ‘to join any thing extrinsick’ (Johnson).
| 1641 Maisterton Serm. 14 That which it superaddeth is a power to reflect upon it self. 1642 Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. ii. VII. 329 His wrath will be turned away and all temporall blessings of prosperitie and peace will be abundantlie supperaddit. 1681 Whole Duty Nations 21 If any thing was wanting in the former Revelation..to superadd what might render it most complete. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 43 Our Gothic ancestors either adopted what they judged excellent in the British constitution, or rather superadded what was deemed to be excellent in their own. 1776 Johnson Let. to Wetherell 12 Mar. in Boswell, We must set the copies at fourteen shillings each, and superadd what is called the quarterly-book. 1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India v. v. II. 530 Famine now raged in all his horrors; and the multitude of the dead and the dying threatened to superadd the evils of pestilence. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 80 Loss of two nights' sleep, with two days' toil superadded. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 379 Fibroid thickening and hypernucleation are superadded in process of time. |
b. Const.
to (
unto).
| a 1458 Gascoigne Life St. Bridget in New Leg. Eng. (1516) 124 b, She nat oonly kepe þ⊇ fastyngs..þ{supt} holy churche commaundeth but she superadded therto many other. a 1552 Leland Itin. (1768) I. p. xxiii, To superadde a Worke as an Ornament..to the Enterprises afore saide. 1692 Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 16 Motion in general superadded to Matter cannot produce any Sense and Perception. 1700 Dryden Fables Pref., Poems (1910) 269 The Manners of æneas are those of Hector superadded to those which Homer gave him. 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ., Moulines, She had, super⁓added likewise to her jacket, a pale green ribband. 1778 Burke Corr. (1844) II. 249 A French war is added to the American; and there is all the reason in the world to expect a Spanish war to be superadded to the French. 1874 Carpenter Mental Phys. i. i. (1879) 23 The Cerebrum..is superadded to this Axial Cord. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 272 Irritative phenomena..are superadded to the paralytic symptoms. |
c. absol. To make a further addition
to.
| 1660 R. Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον Ep. Ded. 3 All the people ought to..superadde to the honour of his Majestie, not limit it at all. a 1769 Johnson in Boswell 26 Oct. 1769, A man who is converted from Protestantism to Popery..parts with nothing: he is only superadding to what he already had. |
2. spec. To add as a further statement; to say, state, or mention in addition. (With simple
obj. or
obj. clause.)
| 1640 Bp. Hall Humb. Remonstr. 20 To this commentary, we shall super-adde the unquestionable glosse of the clear practice of their immediate successors. 1651 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. i. (1739) 8 The King..superadded, that it should be treason for any man to endeavour to repeal any of their determinations. a 1734 North Lives (1826) II. 100 There was an odd passage at the council board which..shall be superadded. 1781 Cowper Hope 434, I superadd a few essentials more. 1857 Dickens Dorrit ii. xv, Here Mrs. General stopped, and added internally..‘Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism’. ‘Mr. Dorrit’, she superadded aloud, ‘is ever most obliging’. |
Hence
superˈadded ppl. a.,
superˈadding vbl. n. Also
superˈaddible a., capable of being superadded;
† ˌsuperaˈdditament = next, 2.
| a 1628 Preston Serm. (1630) 2 They can shew no ground..for their..*superadded opinions. 1650 in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 361 A superadded mercy to all the rest. 1756 Burke Subl. & Beaut. v. i, Painting affects in the same manner, but with the superadded pleasure of imitation. 1843 Pusey Serm. Holy Euch. 10 The remains of original corruption and our own superadded sins. 1854 Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 166 The broken parts may be cemented together by newly superadded shell-substance. |
| 1812–29 Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 108 A finite divided from, and *superaddible to, the infinite. |
| 1655 Sanderson Serm. (1681) II. Pref. 7 The *superadding of examples to commands. |
| 1628 C. Potter Consecr. Serm. (1629) 44 The Church of Rome hath adulterated and obscured her Catholique verities with intolerable *superadditaments. 1647 M. Hudson Div. Right Govt. i. iv. 19 All those relative Entities which are placed in the other seven predicaments are but onely circumstantial superadditaments grounded upon one of these three. |