adv., (a.), prep. [L. suprā adv. and prep. (see next).] A. adv.

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  1.  = ABOVE A. 4; previously, before (in a book or writing). Also in L. phr. ut supra = as above. (Abbreviated sup.)

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 355/2. Nyggarde (or muglard, supra, or nygun, or pynchar, infra), tenax.]

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1526.  in Exch. Rolls Scot., XV. 273, note. The said pensioun of fourty pundis to the said maister Walter,… quhill he be promovit be ws to benefice ut supra.

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1616.  R. Cocks, Diary (Hakl. Soc.), I. 100. 10 cattis tobaco to hym selfe, cost as supra.

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1668.  in Extr. St. Papers rel. Friends, Ser. III. (1912), 279. The book called The sandy Foundation Shaken, of the same date, ut supra.

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1753.  Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., s.v. Leaf, Villose Leaf. See Pilose Leaf, supra.

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1861.  Paley, Æschylus (ed. 2), Supplices, 953, note. On the metre of this verse see supra 7.

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  † 2.  = ABOVE A. 7; in addition, further; more.

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1592.  Nashe, Strange Newes, H 2. Was sinne so vtterly abolished with Tarltons play of the seuen deadly sins, that ther could be nothing said supra of that argument?

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1778.  Stiles, Diary, 24 Sept. (1901), II. 302. Mr. Beers æt. 60 & supra.

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  † B.  adj. Additional, extra. Obs.

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1598.  Barret, Theor. Warres, IV. iv. 115. The which being not aduertised that they be any supra Round, he is bound to giue the word to none but only vnto the Sentinell.

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1773.  Ann. Reg., Chron., 89/1. To defray the supra charge of coinage.

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  C.  prep. in phr. supra protest [ad. It. sopra protesto ‘upon protest’]: see quots. and PROTEST sb. 2.

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1809.  R. Langford, Introd. Trade, 22. After a bill has been protested, it is sometimes accepted by a third party, for the purpose of saving the reputation of a drawer or of an endorser. Such an acceptance is called an acceptance ‘Supra Protest.’

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1847.  B. F. Foster, Counting-ho. Assist., 87. Payment supra protest. Ibid., 99. The acceptor supra protest is bound to notify without delay his acceptance to the person for whose honor it was made.

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