v. [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.
1643. 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 superada 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, Lett. to Wetherell, 12 March, 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 þe fastyngs … þt 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, superadded 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 Superadded ppl. a., Superadding vbl. sb. Also Superaddible a., capable of being superadded; † Superadditament = 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.
