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Definition of Surmounter
1. Noun. Someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion.
Generic synonyms: Controller, Restrainer
Derivative terms: Overcome, Subdue, Subdue
Definition of Surmounter
1. n. One who, or that which, surmounts.
Definition of Surmounter
1. Noun. One who, or that which, surmounts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surmounter
Literary usage of Surmounter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"These actions also are 25 most singular when they be most artificiall. In another
respect we say arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter but onely a bare ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... satisfied With honor or dishonor; unto friends And unto foes alike in tolerance,
Detached from undertakings,—he is named surmounter of the Qualities! ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Tori« above ; to conquer ; to overcome ; to «or* piss : to exceed.
SURMOUNTABLE, (snr-mount'-tH) «. Conquerable ; superable. surmounter ..."
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