superjacentadj.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 8 These are the lineall coagmentations of the two skales, that keepe the compressed sides of the head, bordryng vpon the other bones, or on their endes Superiacent.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxiii. 171 Such was the Coat before the addition of the superiacent Canton.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 108 As 32. foot of Superjacent water would raise up a Mercurial Cylinder of 29. inches.

1735 True Method treating Light Hazely Ground Buchan v. 46 There is an inexhaustible Fund of Water lying too near the Surface of the Earth, which..is still sending up Damps to the superjacent Mold.

1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVIII. 324 It must be an object of importance to the proprietors, to have the superjacent moss cleared away.

1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 314 The muscles of the arm are dissected by removing the superjacent skin.

1867 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) i. 13 The superjacent crystalline rocks..of Lower Silurian age.

1930 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 May 993/2 The superjacent skin subsequently becomes red.

1973 Times 31 May 17/1 The United Kingdom makes no claim to the superjacent waters above our continental shelf.

2008 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 102 920/2 U.S. aircraft participating in a naval exercise shot down in self-defense two Libyan fighters in airspace superjacent to international waters.