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† superfice Obs.
[a. OF. superfice or ad. its source, L. superficies.]
1. Geom. = superficies 1.
c1391Chaucer Astrol. i. §21 The zodiak in heuene is ymagened to ben a superfice contienyng a latitude of 12 degrees. c1643Ld. Herbert Autobiog. (1824) 44 The knowledge of lines, superfices, and bodies,..is not much useful for a gentleman unless it be to understand Fortifications. 1695W. Alingham Geom. Epit. 4 The kinds of Magnitude, which are principally Three, to wit, Length, Breadth and Thickness, or a Line, a Superfice, and a Solid. 1823J. Mitchell Dict. Math. & Phys. Sci., Superficies, or Superfice, in Geometry, the outside or exterior surface of any body. This is considered as of two dimensions, viz. length and breadth, but without thickness.
2. The surface of a body or object; = superficies 2.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. viii. (1868) 81 Þe body of alcibiades þat was ful fayr in þe superfice wiþ oute. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 56 The superfice of that roundnes is of mair quantite nor is the space or largenes that is betuix his tua een. 1599A. Hume Hymns iii. 93 The fields, and earthly superfice, With verdure greene is spread. 1636R. Brathwait Rom. Emp. 276 The whole superfice of the Sea was covered with them. a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. i. 2 (1693) 16 [It] doth not wither as the grasse, or flower lying on the superfice of the earth. 1703Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1401 Hard and perfect Stone..of a Grain and Superfice exactly like those I have seen taken out of the Bladder. 1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 117 [It] is discharged with such a hollow or concave superfice downwards, as completely to whelm over and invert every square inch of the lifted furrow.
b. transf. That which forms, or is upon, the surface.
1542Boorde Dyetary xiii. (1870) 265 Euery thyng that is vnctious..doth swymme aboue in the brynkes of the stomacke:..the excesse of suche nawtacyon or superfyce wyll ascende to the or[if]yse of the stomacke.
3. fig. Outward show or appearance; = superficies 5 c.
1678R. Barclay Apol. Quakers ii. §2. 23 The more Serious..satisfie themselves not with the Superfice of Religion. a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. iii. 8 Wks. (1868) 160 This courteousness is not contrary to that evil, only in the superfice and outward behaviour. |