† superedifyv.

a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 1 Cor. iii. 12 Whoso forsoþe supereedyfye [L. superedificat] aboue þis ground gold, syluer, precyouse stonys, wode..ylkeone of þer werk schal be opyn at þe laste.

1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Pet. ii. 5 Vnto whom approching, a liuing stone,..be ye also your selues super~edified [L. superaedificamini] as it were liuing stones.

1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation ii. 22 Wee must distinguish betweene truthes necessary, and truthes additionall or accessory,..truthes fundamentall, and truthes superedified.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 124 So vigorous a construction of a little City, not super-edefied upon an old bottom, but upstart and new-emergent from the ground.

1747 Biographia Britannica I. 850 That spacious body, and the suburbs thereof, might rather seem a whole country super-edified, than only a city.

1558 in R. Renwick Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1896) II. 58 Cuthtbert can nocht haif closure at the sowtht ende of his waist..without he haif tollerance of the said Johne to superedifie upone his gavile.

1591 H. Barrow Plaine Refut. Giffardes Bk. iii. 152 The blessing and power of God should not goe with his holy word and truth in the mouth of all his seruants, both to cal vnto the faith, an to super-edifie in the faith.

1641 F. Rous Catholick Charitie x. 254 His businesse is not to deny a distinction of fundamentals and not fundamentals, in regard of greater or lesser importance of the Articles themselves; but, this being granted, to adjoyne and superedifie.