单词 | supersedal |
释义 | † supersedaln. Obsolete. Supersession; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun] > and substitution of another supersedal1663 supersession1764 superseding1794 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xiv. 212 The Chancellour..continually provides against the supersedals of death, impotency or demerit, by [appointing] additional Justices. 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 62 What alas signifies Haman's rage, if God..bring in Ester his Enemy to his supersedal? 1756 Impartial Refl. Case of Mr. Byng 40 Mr. Byng's Behaviour since his Supersedal by Sir Edward Hawke..savors nothing of that Timidity which has been reproached to him. 1837 C. Bucke Bk. Human Char. 145 There had subsisted a schism from the supersedal of Sir Christopher Wren in 1718. 1895 M. G. McClelland Mammy Mystic 23 Mystic had taken both desertion and supersedal with the utmost philosophy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1663 |
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