surplusagen.
/ˈsəːpləsɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsərpləsɪdʒ/ 1.
a. = surplus n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > what remains in excess
surplusc1374
overplusa1387
thrifta1387
surplusagec1407
surplusagec1407
superplusage1436
overdealc1440
overcome1445
superplusa1450
superfluities1483
upperplus1578
super1626
reserve1646
overs1864
overmatter1887
c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 6341 To refuse and voyde clene Of excesse all surplusage.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes v. xvi. (Bodl. 263) 279/1 He took non heed of al the surplusage Of ther tresours.
c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. Proem xl. (MS. Arch. Seld. B. 10) lf. 8 b How of this Reame þe noble gouernours Haue kepte it..In victorie triumphe and surplausage.
1527 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 28 The surplushach of the said money to dispose for my soule.
c1530 in R. Dyboski Songs, Carols, & Other Misc. Poems (1908) 77 Of this pore secte it is the vsage, Only to take þat nature may susteyn; Banysshyng clen all oþer surplusage.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. viii. sig. bi Fortitude..is a..meane betwene two extremities, the one in surplusage, the other in lacke.
1553 Act 7 Edw. VI c. 1 §11 Delyvering to the partie distreigned the surplusage and overplus of the valew of every such distres.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 501 Catulus campe being plentifully vittelled, they sent their store & surplusage vnto Marius souldiers.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 115 Any..cause that generates a surplussage of blood.
1637 T. Heywood Royall King i. i. sig. A4v You load me with a surplussadge Of comptlesse debt to this thrice valiant Lord.
1670–1 Act 22 & 23 Chas. II c. 10. §5 To make distribution of the Surplusage of the Estate of any person dying intestate.
1696 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 494 The Surplusage for defraying the debts of the government.
1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost II. xiii. 353 [They] tie them close..winding the Surplusage of the String about them.
1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 177 The cattle to live wholly on the surplusage of the summer.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 152 The gifted man is he who sees the essential point, and leaves all the rest aside as surplusage.
1882 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. II. 36 The documents were mere surplusage, the bishops exercising jurisdiction without them.
1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 30 Mar. 5/3 Any other question might seem merely surplusage.
b. An excess or superabundance (of words); spec. in Law, a word, clause, or statement in an indictment or a plea which is not necessary to its adequacy.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > verbosity
multiplicationa1500
surplusage1534
verbosity1541
wordishness1657
wordiness1680
verboseness1695
verbiagea1721
verbage1742
palaverment1816
tootling1821
tootle1883
1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Aiiiv To abreueate the tyme and to exclude Surplusage of wordes.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 215 The Poet or makers speech becomes vicious..by nothing more than by vsing too much surplusage.
1649 C. Walker Anarchia Anglicana ii. 245 The word..was a surplusage, for which no Indictment could lie.
1651 tr. J. Kitchin Courts Leet (1657) 420 Formedon of a house, and in the perclose of the Writ there is a house and meadow; and after view the Tenant cannot shew that in abatement, for that it is but a Surplusage.
1708 Term Rep. VIII. 497 The word ‘feloniously’ in this declaration is impertinent, and may be rejected as surplusage.
1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 353 Nor is it surplussage to reiterate the same thought or fact.
1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Introd. p. xii Omissions, and surplusages in the MS.
1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 25 685 The reference to widowhood could not..be treated as surplusage, but was the principal part of the condition.
1908 Pitman's ‘How to take Minutes’ 33 Many minute books contain a surplusage of words.
2. = surplus n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > excess, redundancy, or superfluity > a surplus or excess
surplusc1374
overplusa1387
surplusagec1407
superplusage1436
superplusa1450
surcroitre1496
superfluous1552
excess1557
over-increase1579
over-sum1587
overflow1589
surcrease1600
surcroist1601
over-crease1625
exceeding1719
excedent1811
surcruec1825
overage1886
overspill1892
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > what remains in excess
surplusc1374
overplusa1387
thrifta1387
surplusagec1407
surplusagec1407
superplusage1436
overdealc1440
overcome1445
superplusa1450
superfluities1483
upperplus1578
super1626
reserve1646
overs1864
overmatter1887
c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 4768 Thou gest of me no more langage, I put al the surplusage In thyn ovne eleccion After thy discrecion.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes viii. xxiv. (Bodl. 263) 400/2 To conclude & leue the surplusage In that bataile ded was many a kniht.
1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 49/2 The surplusage of the price therof..to be delyvered to the owner.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clviii. f. lxxxvi Of the holynes of this Martyr and of his vertue the Legende of Sayntes reportith the surplusage.
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