† supervacanealadj.
Obsolete. rare.
= supervacaneous adj.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or superfluous > superfluous or unnecessary
wastec1380
voidc1440
superfluousc1450
supererogative1538
supererogatory1549
supervacaneala1575
supervacaneousa1575
supervacuous1577
supernumerary1617
excrescent1633
expletive1656
expletory1679
supererogant1737
ripieno1781
excrescentitious1833
excrescential1849
fifth-wheel1874
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 115 Though it be..with long painted supervacaneall words exorned and set forth.
1649 T. Barton King Davids Church-prayer 6 The Prodicians, Adamites, and Cyrenaick Phylosophers affirm praying supervacaneall.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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adj.a1575- to take what one can find
- to take what one can get
- to take where one can find it
- to take where one can get it
- to take wherever one can find it
- to take wherever one can get it
- to take wind
- to take wine
- to take wing
- to take wing a or one's flight
- to take winter
- to take with
- to take with one
- to take with the foot
- to take witness by
- to take witness of
- to take wrack
- to take wrack on one
- to take years from a person
- to take years off a person
- to take, accept, receive in gree
- to take, catch the fancy of
- to take, cry, call a truce
- to take, cry, call truce
- to take, give career