supersedern.

?1774 A. M. E. Cooke Lion & Unicorn 14 The Father..[had promised money] in order to detain and retain his first-born lawful Son and Heir in this Country; which is not constitutional to a Superseder of the lower with a higher Mode of Existence.

1786 F. Burney Diary 25 Sept. (1842) III. 151 My presidency was abolished..by the sudden return of its rightful superseder.

1832 U.S. Weekly Tel. 14 May 218/1 A domestic market,..which is to make New England the superceder and the successor of the southern States and of all foreign nations, in the purchase and consumption of western produce.

1849 R. Browning Paracelsus iv, in Poems I. 107 The delights you fain would think The superseders of your nobler aims.

1883 G. Allen Colin Clout's Cal. v. 28 The remaining ganoids, sharks, and lampreys all show signs of depending mainly upon smell, their modern superseders show signs of depending mainly upon sight.

1920 Education Dec. 219 Teachers..are far more serviceable as directors of children's energies than as questioners, superseders, and interferers.

2003 C. Henry et al. Entrepreneurship Educ. & Training i. iii. 72 Gibb and Ritchie (1981) propose four types of entrepreneur..Superceders: those who set up a business in the second half of their life, possibly in a new career. [Etc.].

2004 P. Viereck Unadjusted Man in Age of Overadjustment (new ed.) Introd. p. ix I use the word meta-tech not only to include technics but also its consequence (and sometimes superseder), the service industry.