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supervacaneous, a. Now rare or Obs.|ˌs(j)uːpəvəˈkeɪnɪəs|
[f. L. supervacāneus, f. super- super- III + vacāre to be empty or void: see -eous. Cf. It., Sp., Pg. supervacaneo.]
Vainly added over and above what is essential; superfluous, redundant.
c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 146 For the avoiding of supervacaneous tediousness we will cut off all such endless matters. 1641J. Trappe Theol. Theol. viii. 313 Account not any part of this venerable Volume to be superfluous or super-vacaneous. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 217 As much supervacaneous humour as they had lost, so much new strength they had acquired. 1772Nugent Hist. Fr. Gerund II. 85 Conjectural argument is supervacaneous when the words of the oracle are clear. 1825Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Indications Postscr. (1830) 23 Desire is sufficient: accomplishment, or anything like an approach to it, supervacaneous! 1838Beard in E. G. Holland Mem. J. Badger xvii. (1854) 348 While others contend about the supervacaneous part of religion.
Hence ˌsupervaˈcaneously adv.; ˌsupervaˈcaneousness.
1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ xii. 178 They might have..spared supervacaneously to shew us the difference. 1730Bailey (fol.), Supervacaneousness. |