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Definition of Superincumbent
1. Adjective. Lying or resting on and exerting pressure on something else. "Superincumbent layers of dead plants cut off the air and arrested decomposition"
Definition of Superincumbent
1. a. Lying or resting on something else.
Definition of Superincumbent
1. Adjective. (context: chiefly science) Lying or resting on something else; overlying. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Superincumbent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superincumbent
Literary usage of Superincumbent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"The bodies melting away throw the superincumbent weight upon the articulating
processes and the spinous ligaments. By slow degrees the ligaments between the ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"CRETACEOUS GROUP, in Geology, consists of the upper strata of the secondary *
series immediately below the tertiary* series and superincumbent on the ..."
3. A Geological and Agricultural Survey of the District Adjoining the Erie by Amos Eaton, Stephen Van Rensselaer (1824)
"... and superincumbent. [Vid. Def. pp. 27, 32, 35, 38.] THE Erie Canal crosses
primitive, transition, and secondary rocks. From its commencement at Albany, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... by tho procesa blown as robbing tho pillars, but the coal so obtained is liable
to be very much crushed from the pressure of the superincumbent strata. ..."
5. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America by Charles Darwin, George Brettingham Sowerby, William Lonsdale, Edward Forbes (1897)
"A calcareous sedimentary deposit, with recent shells, altered by the contact of
superincumbent lava, ..."
6. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to by William Hemsley Emory (1848)
"... and resting upon the superincumbent strata of the MÍ y substance, are large
masses of lighter colored trap; near the ase of the black volcanic masses in ..."
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