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superfluent, a. rare.|s(j)uːˈpɜːfluːənt|
[ad. L. superfluent-, -ens, pr. pple. of superfluĕre: see superflue and -ent.]
1. = superfluous, in various senses.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. ii. 294 In Nouember kitte of the bowes drie, Superfluent & thicke. 1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. i. xxiii. 124, I cut off as much of the Skin as was superfluent, and brought the rest together. 1804Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. (1882) CXXXI. 124 The present German philosophers, who are sinking back rapidly into miscellany, and superfluent, and arbitrary. 1822Scott Let. to A. Constable 28 May, A sort of historical prayer, in which Lochleven is superfluent enough to remind God Almighty [etc.]. 1882J. Nichol Amer. Lit. iv. 128 Though superfluent, he never brings in bombast to plaster lack of knowledge.
2. Flowing or floating above. Obs. or arch. rare.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. xi. 476 In hondis clene vphent Al that wol swymme & be superfluent. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus xvii. 10 Where the superfluent lake, the spongy putrescence, Sinks most murkily flushed.
3. Superabundant.
a1711[implied in superfluently]. 1848Bailey Festus xxiii. (ed. 3) 289 Its breast, which burns With all concentrate and superfluent woe. 1885L. Oliphant Sympneumata 181 That junction of love-force may reproduce the superfluent quantities that will go forth to succour through the world.
Hence † suˈperfluently adv., superabundantly.
a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 390 Luke rapt at Jesus Love,..Himself an Holocaust to Jesus gave. Luke superfluently fir'd, Strait from all Worldly Cares retir'd. |