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Superadd   Listen
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Superadd  v. t.  (past & past part. superadded; pres. part. superadding)  To add over and above; to add to what has been added; to annex, as something extrinsic. "The strength of any living creature, in those external motion, is something distinct from, and superadded unto, its natural gravity." "The peacock laid it extremely to heart that he had not the nightingale's voice superadded to the beauty of his plumes."






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"Superadd" Quotes from Famous Books



... value of general preparations for any duty, as compared with special,—who held that it was always easier for a man of brains to acquire technical skill than for a person of mere technicality to superadd brains, and that the antecedents of a frontier lieutenant were, on the whole, a poorer training for large responsibilities than those of many a civilian, who had lived in the midst of men, though out of uniform. Let us ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 • Various

... darkly, as through the foliage of some wavering thicket: a youth of no common endowment, who has passed happily through Childhood, less happily yet still vigorously through Boyhood, now at length perfect in "dead vocables," and set down, as he hopes, by the living Fountain, there to superadd Ideas and Capabilities. From such Fountain he draws, diligently, thirstily, yet never or seldom with his whole heart, for the water nowise suits his palate; discouragements, entanglements, aberrations are discoverable or supposable. Nor perhaps are ...
— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle



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