superadditionn.
/ˌsuːpərəˈdɪʃn/, /ˌsjuːpərəˈdɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsupərəˈdɪʃən/ 1. That which is or has been superadded, a superadded thing; esp. a later addition to a text or the like.
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1584 in D. Littlejohn Rec. Sheriff Court Aberdeenshire (1904) I. 324 In caice the coppy beir ony super additione to the principall letteris.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. §12 Virtue being superaddition to Nature.
1662 P. Gunning Paschal or Lent-Fast 63 One part of the Aerians superaddition to the Arrian heresie.
1714 R. Steele Lover No. 29 (1715) 170 He hath so clogg'd it, and sophisticated it with Superadditions, that it may be he hath altered the Nature..of it.
1783 Monthly Rev. Feb. 108 The pure doctrine of the Gospel, particularly as distinguished from all human..refinements..and super-additions.
1818 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 871 I confess, that the ape, cat, lupine tribes, &c, have often appeared to me..a superaddition to the animal creation.
a1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) xv. 226 A superaddition to, not a constituent of, man's moral existence.
1912 Open Court Jan. 45 These superadditions and later insertions should not be denounced as corruptions of the text.
1995 T. Castle Female Thermometer xi. 204 If the slamming sound was a superaddition from 1906,..then it began to look as though Moberly and Jourdain had been embellishing..all along.
2. The action or an act of superadding; the condition of being superadded; further addition. Often used merely to intensify addition (cf. superadd v. 1).
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1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ezek. iii. Comm. More grace added to the former which was sufficient before, and by this superaddition is made effectual.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 74 By a super-addition of the oyl of Vitriol, you may re-tincture as before.
1753 S. Johnson Adventurer No. 115. ⁋15 If his topics be probable and persuasory, that he be able to recommend them by the superaddition of elegance and imagery.
1757 T. Smollett Hist. Eng. VI. 347 A mere schism, which in itself was sinful, without the superaddition of a temporal law to make it an offence.
1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 408 With all these powers, in superaddition to his own character.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. 8 Would then the mere superaddition of metre, with or without rhyme, entitle these to, the name of poems?
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 364 With a further increase of vascular tension and the superaddition of hypertrophy of the heart, the dropsy will lessen or cease.
1916 Amer. Med. Dec. 824/2 The beneficial effect of superaddition of fat to the diet receives no explanation.
1989 M. Robinson Mother Country ii. 166 The issue of the super-addition of man-made to natural background radiation still arises.
Derivatives
ˌsuperaˈdditional adj.
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1637 J. Bastwick More Full Answer to Exceptions against Letany (title page) More Articles superadditionall vpon superadditionall.
1734 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 605/2 The Denomination (of Broomstick) was an honourable, superadditional Appellative, bestowed on our great Founder,..for sweeping..from the Face of the Earth, the Oppressors of Merit.
1847 P. Fairbairn Typology Script. II. i. i. 3 What might now be regarded as fundamental,..must have been, to a considerable extent, super-additional.
1900 W. H. Dickinson King Arthur in Cornwall ii. 30 The more remote are the Arthurian writings from the Arthurian epoch,..the more circumstantial, and the more obviously superadditional, they become.
2001 Classical Rev. 51 55 Here the ‘r’ of W.'s ‘contr.’ is a superadditional goof.
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1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't i. vii. 66 It is against their conscience to admit those other super additionary points.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 35 A simple mineral salt..without any superadditionary additaments.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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