1818 G. Beattie John O'Arnha (ed. 2) 14 It is quite common, in modern poetry, to break off in an abrupt manner, and bring in a song, a sonnet, or cantata, with a super-title in Saxon letters.

1867 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire New Ser. 7 136 Master Humphrey's Clock, which was the preliminary form, and its name the super-title of the Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.

1907 E. H. Short Hist. Sculpt. xiv. 263 A single super-title—‘The Renascence of Individualism’—might properly characterize both chapters.

1958 R. L. Garthoff Soviet Strategy in Nucl. Age ix. 217 A series of five articles under the supertitle ‘Atomic Explosion at Sea’ was published in the naval paper Sovetskii flot.

1977 E. J. H. Greene Menander to Marivaux 33 Curtis had good justification for the supertitle Crispin Ier to the normal academic title of his study.

1992 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Mar. 25/1 Mediterraneans: A quarterly review is a rather more difficult journal to classify. Its super-title, ‘Ideas. New Writings. Images’ is probably an accurate enough description.

1965 Educ. Theatre Jrnl. 17 136/2 There is an excellent solution to this [translation] problem... This is the super-title process developed by Bob Swanson of Telesync Corporation for Alexander H. Cohen's handsome but ill-fated musical of last season, Rugantino.

1984 Financial Times 29 Feb. 13 All operas not sung in English..will have ‘supertitles’ flashed on a screen at the top of the proscenium.

1997 J. Chatfield-Taylor San Francisco Opera ix. 147 Supertitles are now a fact of life at almost every major opera house in the world.

2008 Washington Times (Nexis) 12 Dec. b7 High definition is the best thing to have happened to opera since supertitles.

1919 G. Saintsbury Hist. French Novel II. xiv. 539 Two more of ‘Les Batailles de la Vie’ (as, for some not too obvious reason, it pleased M. Ohnet to super-title his novels) may..give a basis for a more general judgement of his position.

1952 Observer 28 Sept. 11/6 There was a draught of tonic vitality in Barbara Ward's ‘The Age of Confusion’ (first of three [radio] talks super-titled Is There A New Radicalism?).

1976 W. J. Miller in tr. J. Verne 20,000 Leagues under Sea Foreword p. xv By the time all sixty-five Voyages Extraordinary (as the series was supertitled) were in print, Verne had predicted virtually every major technical development of the twentieth century.

1998 Compar. Lit. 50 26 The play is supertitled: ‘A Dramatic Nightmare’.

2005 M. McGee Self-Help, Inc. iv. 126 Supertitled A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self, the book was subsequently published in 1992.

1977 Fortnight July 16/2 The tale is told boldly, the [play's] messages delivered unmistakeably, sometimes sub-titled, or perhaps super-titled on banners above the action.

1984 New Yorker 16 July 87/2 Only two of San Francisco's five ‘Siegfried’ performances were supertitled.

1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 2 Sept. 13 Every foreign language opera is now supertitled by Scottish Opera.

2007 J. G. Miller Ariane Mnouchkine i. 14 Actors speak in Farsi, Dari, and pidgin, while the play is supertitled in French.