a. Obs. rare. [f. late L. suppedāneus: see next and -EOUS.] Placed under or supporting the feet; of the nature of a footstool, pedestal, or the like; also applied to a mountain lying at the foot of another.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. xiii. 254. He had slender legs, but encreased them by riding after meales; that is, the humours descending upon their pendulosity, they having no support or suppedaneous stability.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Suppedaneous, belonging to a foot-stool, or any thing that is set under the feet.
1659. H. L’Estrange, Alliance Div. Off., 263. Seeing it is suppedaneous, the Pedestal to support nobler truths.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnotheo, VIII. Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 240. Hymnotheo … Strait to a suppedaneous Mountain went.
