a. Obs. rare. [f. L. super numerum: see SUPER- 11 and NUMERAL.] = SUPERNUMERARY a. 1.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. ix. 577. My booke is alwayes one: except that … I give my selfe law to adde thereto … some supernumeral [orig. supernumeraire] embleme.
1638. Featly, Strict. Lyndom., I. 57. I answer for the Knight, that he created no supernumerall cardinall: for he would not usurpe upon the Popes priviledge.
