a. [f. L. supersess-, pa. ppl. stem of supersedāre to SUPERSEDE + -IVE.] Having the quality or character of superseding; taking the place of something or some one displaced.
1817. G. S. Faber, Eight Diss. (1845), I. 170. The name Russia … instead of being a modern appellation supersessive of Muscovy,… is one of very remote antiquity.
1881. Fairbairn, Life Christ, vii. 117. A new faith supersessive of the old.
So Supersessor, = SUPERSEDER; Supersessory a. = SUPERSESSIVE.
1883. Fairbairn, City of God, II. iii. (1886), 194. Schools that have denied God have had to coin supersessory and substitutive terms, like ‘Substance’ or ‘Force,’ ‘The Unknown’ or ‘The Unconscious.’
1894. Q. Rev., Oct., 567. His supersessor was only known as a youthful nobleman.
