rare. [SUPER- 3, 10.]

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  1.  Her. A charge bore upon another charge.

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1766.  Porny, Elem. Her. (1777), T viij b/2.

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1780.  Edmondson, Heraldry, II. Gloss., Super-charge, is a term that hath been applied by some to express one figure borne on another…. N. B. This word, Super-charge, is now seldom or ever used, surmounted being a better term.

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  2.  An excessive charge; an overcharge.

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1826.  Disrael in Monypenny, Life (1910), I. vii. 95. I generally detect the aubergiste in a super-charge.

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