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Definition of Surpassed
1. surpass [v] - See also: surpass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surpassed
| surmounting surmounts surmullet surmullets surname surnamed surnameless surnamer surnamers surnames | surnaming surnay surnominal surplice surpliced surplices surplus surplus value surplusage surplusages | surplused |
Literary usage of Surpassed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In his command of the burin Goltzius is not surpassed even by Dürer; but his
technical skill is often unequally aided by higher artistic qualities. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In 1914, the value of the factory product of clothing for women and children
surpassed that of clothing for men and boys. In both branches of the industry ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Withal it evinces poetic worth and contains some passages which are not surpassed
in any literature. Bibliography.— The text of the Tain, from the most ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"134) An effort so prodigious surpassed (he wants of a more ancient, and the
faculties of a later period. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"There was strength only by the adherents of the Church of The religious statistics
of South Australia were in the Commonwealth is surpassed in numerical ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"In some special points he may have been surpassed by more recent or still living
painters ; but not one has reached his great and varied excellence in the ..."
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