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supersedev. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French superseder; Latin supersedēre. Etymology: < (i) Middle French superceder, superseder (French †superséder ) (intransitive) to defer (action), delay (1413), (transitive) to postpone, defer (1454), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin supersedēre (in post-classical Latin also supercedere) to sit on top (of), to abstain (from), to refrain or desist (from), in post-classical Latin also to fail to pay when due (11th cent.), to fail to attend (from 12th cent. in British and continental sources), to stay (legal) proceedings (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources) < super- super- prefix + sedēre to sit (see sedent adj.). Compare Middle French, French surseoir (see surcease v.), Spanish sobreseer (13th cent.), Italian soprassedere (1340).The β. forms ultimately show influence from etymologically unrelated verbs ending in -cede (e.g. recede v.1, precede v.2), perhaps partly after similar forms in Middle French and post-classical Latin. Originally Scottish. I. Senses involving postponing, ending, or desisting from action. 1. Scottish. the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] 1433–4 MS Rec. Aberdeen 26 Jan. in at Supersede As touchand the taking doun of the hous..abone the [venale] because of passage it is our will that ye sup [er] sede of the taking doun of the house quhil ye haf furthir mandment of vs. 1495 in C. Innes & P. Chalmers (1856) II. 290 And askit at the schireff til superced quhil the xxviii day of November. 1575 J. Rolland ii. f. 28v To clym ȝone Cord faith I will superseid. 1575 J. Rolland ii. f. 20v Without mair baid thay wald not superseid. 1639 T. Hope Let. in (1893) I. 110 If ye resolue to supercid at hir request till Witsonday. 1683 J. Dalrymple I. 59 The Lords superceided to give answer till they considered the Process. the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)] 1482 in T. Thomson (1839) 110 Thomas Jaksoune has grauntit..to supersede the execucion of this decrete quhil Witsonday. 1491 in (1839) I. 196/2 He sall supercede þe payment of þe said vc frankis. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy (1901) I. ii. xxi. 214 Þe equis and Wolschis wald supersede þare batall na langare bot quhil þe recent doloure of þare last discomfitoure war ourepast. 1580–1 (1880) 1st Ser. III. 346 His Majestie..will caus superceid the executioun of rigour of his lawis..aganis thame for sum ressonable space. 1618 Ld. Dunfermline Let. in G. Seton (1882) vi. 126 I..am content ye superseid the outredding of the warke, till your leisour and commoditie permitt you to see it donne. 1646 T. Hope Let. in (1893) I. 135 I sall labour..to supercid the bargen of the land to zour awin coming. 1696 in (1837) II. App. 268 The city of Glasgow has a bond of £1,200 from the colledge..The city have still superceded the craveing it back. 1748 16 June 1 The said Margaret Smart and her Children..are willing to supersede Payment thereof until the Term of Payment underwritten. 1825 R. Thomson 189 He..got from the debtor in the precept a bond of corroboration for the balance, superseding payment for a certain term. 1893 31 227/2 The pursuers agreed to supersede payment of the sum in the bond. 1928 VI. 646 The Court has power to supersede extract till some condition or qualification of the decree shall have been implemented. 1993 (SI 1993 No. 1956) Rule 30.4(4) Nothing in this rule shall affect the power of the sheriff to supersede extract. 1511 in J. B. Paul (1902) IV. 318 To tua men of Murray to mak thair lettrez to superseid the chamerlane. the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (transitive)] > a person 1517 in J. Imrie et al. (1960) 41 We..desyris Woll Ker and Woll Loremer to superced that thair caus undecidit quhill we ma caus it to be sperit at men of law quhyder sic annuel supercedit neclegentlie suld all be payit or nocht. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy (1901) I. ii. xxi. 214 Thus mycht nowthir þare weris be supersedit [L. omitti] nor ȝit clerely dantit. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy II. iv. xii. 130 How þe romanis send þare legatis to Veanis to desire reddres..; how þe veanis war supersedit for þe Civil divisioun amang þame. 1555 in (1847) 71 The said priores is content to superceid hyr Kandelmes maill of this ȝer..to Beltane. ?1557 in A. I. Cameron (1927) 410 To writ to the comtrollar to swparseid the poyr men till Yowill. 1591 XXII. 572 Johne Chalmer..promest faithfullie to caus him compeir the said day..and the thesaurar hes superceidit him quhill the said day. c1600 (1833) 301 The preist..wes condamnit..and thairefter hangit; the rest wer superceidit. c1626 H. Bisset (1920) I. 51 I superceded this offence quhill moir opportunitie occurred. the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)] > be delayed 1569 1st Ser. I. 687 His bill of complaint; quhairupoun answer wes to superceid quhill his Graces cuming. †2. the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] 1449 MS Rec. Aberdeen in (at cited word) The sammyn William to freith this toune and the balyheis of this twa yher last bigane befor Mychaelmes..and apon the remanand the alderman and counsaile sall superseid apon his gude beryng. 1473 in T. Thomson (1839) 28/2 The kingis hienes direct a letter vnder his priue [seal] charging to supercede apoun the distrenȝe for the said soume. a1513 J. Irland (1965) II. 83 Thocht to all that I say I may nocht adduce autoriteis I sall superced and found all thir veriteis in ressoune naturall. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie (1888) I. 127 Of vthiris Magistratis to make mentione,..I superseid and pas ouir. a1600 R. Lindsay (1899) I. 88 The king tuik werie heavie witht this heigh contempt bot superceidit for the tyme. 1624 R. Montagu in J. Cosin 30 Oct. (1869) I. xv. 24 I have sent for my papers from my Lord Keper, and have them: therefore let your Lord supersede from asking. 1644 H. Parker 19 I shall have occasion to be more large hereafter upon this, and therefore I now supersede. 1706 T. Lining in A. Shields A 4 Lest I should darken counsel by Words without Knowledge, I shall supersede. 1850 F. W. Newman 177 I therefore quite supersede to name the many other difficulties in detail. the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] 1499–1500 in G. Neilson & H. Paton (1918) II. 392 George, Bishop of Dunkeld, requirit till ceis and supersede his letters and processes under the pane of cursing direct be him apone the schiref of Perth. 1527 in (1830) I. 246 I could not see, but Your bothe Majesties must supersede and give place to your ardent appetites, in concluding of the said mariage. 1589 W. Warner (new ed.) vi. xxxiii. 145 Then beleeue I loue it more, Than that for other law than Life to supersead my Clame. 1661 J. Glanvill 250 But I shall supersede this endless attempt. 1687 in J. A. Picton (1883) I. 256 Wee doe hereby direct you..to supersead and forbeare all prosecution. 1709 T. Hearne (1886) II. 165 His warrant for superseding the Execution. 1721 in (1852) III. 142 [That] the new road now complained of by the Petitioners be for the present Superseded. 1750 T. Carte II. 361 The king..superseded all his other preparations for the invasion of Scotland. society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)] 1645 G. Langbaine x. 83 Iustices and Iurors have been superseded from enquiring upon Routs and Tumults. 1648 H. Parker 15 I wish our young gallants..did alwayes return home..much improved..But this is not within my lists, and that thought shall supersede me. 1675 V. Alsop Pref. I was superseded a while by a more weighty Consideration. the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > refrain from speaking about 1560 J. Knox 213 To supersede the rest of your blasphemies I return to your booke, because that after I purpose to speake of your holie conuersation. 1586 W. Warner iii. xviii. 74 Ye Mars-stard Pichtes..Ye Dardan Brutes,..I supersede the rest: Ye come to fight. 1607 E. Topsell 230 I superseed any further discourse heereof, till we come to the declaration of the greater beast. 1671 R. Bohun 35 I supersede many remarks from our Sea voyages;..and shall instance only two. 1675 V. Alsop i. 27 Of which supposed Order..I shall supersede any further Disquisition at present. 1689 T. Plunket Ded. sig. A3v One thing..I cannot supersede,..And that is,..Here to record what should be known to all. the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid 1618 T. Bretnor tr. A. Sala x. 77 That some haue died soone after the taking thereof..ought not to supersede [Fr. prevaloir] all other reasons, attestations & experience concerning the good effects..of Laudanum. 1654 E. Gayton iii. viii. 117 A superannuate Creature, who (notwithstanding that her yeares did supercede her vocation) prudently shifted her Trade into that of a Matron. a1676 M. Hale (1677) i. ii. 60 The contrary command of the Will supersedes the command of the Appetite; the Appetite desires it, but the Hand is forbidden by the Will to reach it. a1742 T. Story (1747) 3 I was preserved from Vice.., tho' not without Temptations; and some not otherwise to be resisted than by the secret Influence of Grace, which supercedes them. 1790 E. Burke 312 The municipalities supersede the orders of the assembly, and the seamen in their turn supersede the orders of the municipalities. View more context for this quotation 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in I. xv. 128 How vain..the hope to supersede His purpose. 1817 J. Mill II. iv. ix. 287 A power of superseding the operations and suspending the authority of the Presidents and Councils. 1845 H. H. Wilson I. vii. 417 When in this capacity he superseded all other rights. 1863 D. Wilson (ed. 2) II. iii. vi. 160 The Norman invader superseded Anglo-Saxon institutions. 1894 J. Schouler in J. Hawthorne et al. VI. xix. 184 As to the disputed boundary, he superseded his predecessor's orders, so far as to direct the existing status to be maintained until Congress could dispose of the subject. 1932 S. P. Scott tr. Digest or Pandects xxxviii. in VIII. 295 It was decided that this clause did not change the right of succession, for the contracts of private individuals are not held to supersede the authority of the laws. 1950 E. Robertson 62 The law book which the king read was clearly a book known, by repute at least, to the people, and of an authority sufficient to supersede the law code under which they were living. 2009 E. Treharne in H. Magennis & M. Swan xv. 412 The very emphatic visibility of these interlinear insertions..suggest an editor of this text who imagined himself so engaged with Ælfric's homily that he superseded the authority of Ælfric, effectively owning the text through the editorial process. 5. Law. the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to 1643 20 June (single sheet) When a legall course was prescribed by the Lords,..that legall course was superseaded by..the House of Commons. a1662 P. Heylyn (1668) 111 Inhibiting all Processes, and Superseding all proceedings against Recusants. 1701 F. Atterbury 35 An Attentat, i.e. a Criminal Endeavour of exerting a Power, which was superseded and laid asleep. 1768 J. T. Atkyns 3 564 A commission of bankruptcy cannot supersede a decree of this court for a receiver. 1812 25 May 324/2 Bankruptcy Superseded. J. Boone, Piccadilly, haberdasher. 1878 Mar. 362 We may supersede interlocutory or final orders or decrees, but not the fiat of a Judge granting extraordinary process. 1922 280 477 The effect of a composition proceeding..is to supersede the bankruptcy proceeding and substitute the composition proceeding for it. 1958 44 496 If the appellant wants to avoid execution of the judgment or decree pending the appeal he must ask in the petition that it be superseded. In such event the appellate court issues not only its writs of error or appeal but also a supersedeas. 1993 Rep. National Comm. Judicial Discipline & Removal 34 in (1998) (Committee on Judiciary, House of Representatives) 738 Any member can supersede ongoing proceedings to command an hour of debate on a proposition to impeach. 2005 46 1103 As a general rule, a party's right to supersede a judgment is not a matter of the trial court's discretion. A party has the right to supersede a final money judgment by posting appellate security, thereby suspending execution. society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity c1674 H. Finch Man. Chancery Pract. cxviii, in (1965) (modernized text) i. 162 If they proceed indiscreetly, the Chancellor..ought to supersede the commission. 1691 T. Hale p. xxvii His Majesty thought fit to supersede that Commission for executing the Office of the Lord High Admiral. 1702 No. 3860/4 The said Commission is superceded under the Great Seal of England. 1979 69 49/1 He [sc. Lord Nottingham] suggested that the lord chancellor should have the power to ‘supersede’ a commission ‘if they proceed indiscreetly’.] society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > acquittal or clearing of accusation > acquit or clear of accusation [verb (transitive)] > discharge by writ a1754 J. Strange (1755) 2 1215 Upon motion to supersede the defendant..; the court held, that the committitur must be actually entred on record before the end of the second term. 1817 W. Tidd (ed. 6) I. xiv. 371 If the defendant be superseded, or supersedeable, for want of proceedings before judgment, the plaintiff may nevertheless take or charge him in execution, at any time after judgment. 1831–2 in T. Chitty (1838) II. 915 All prisoners who have been..in the custody of the marshal or warden for the space of one calendar month after they are supersedeable, although not superseded, shall be forthwith discharged. 1928 52 178 Only the King can grant a Writ of Supersedeas, to remove or supersede a Justice. society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > be exempt from (a liability or obligation) [verb (transitive)] > free from obligation a1644 F. Quarles (1646) 26 Has mortalitie no priviledge, to supersede it from the utmost punishment of a little necessary frailtie? 1657 R. Sanderson Pref. §5 Much of which having..received its answer beforehand..might supersede me the labour of adding any more now. 1660 E. Stillingfleet ii. v. 200 We might have been superceded from our former labour, but that [etc.]. 1798 J. Sinclair XX. ix. 221 Had there been manufactures sufficient to employ the hands superseded from tillage, the enlargement of farms might have been favourable to agriculture, without diminishing the population. the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > be necessary to or for a person [verb (transitive)] > render unnecessary 1645 H. Hammond i. 24 Saint Paul thinkes it enough against an Ecclesiasticall usage, and that which might supersede all strife about it. 1663 To Rdr. This ingenuous Author, whose blamelesse repute, and fair deportment..superseded all censure. 1673 R. Allestree ii. iii. §1 Widowhood, which tho it supersedes those duties which were terminated merely in the person of the husband, yet it endears those which may be paid to his ashes. 1685 J. Ray Let. 11 Feb. in (1848) 160 It is not my intention to supersede the use of any approved botanic author. a1699 E. Stillingfleet Serm. John iv. 24 in (1710) I. 609 The Gospel doth not supersede any Reasonable Duties of Divine Worship. 1729 Bp. J. Butler (ed. 2) Pref. p. xxiv Resentment cannot supersede the Obligation to universal Benevolence. 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in (1808) VIII. 289 The mortal animosity of the regicide enemy supersedes all other panegyrick. 1841 Countess of Blessington I. 269 The lively causerie of the habitués de maison supersedes the constraint of ceremony. 1863 9 Sept. 4/1 The eminently adaptive and practician character of the Americans goes far to supersede the necessity of tedious drill. 1936 G. H. Cowling 86 Universal benevolence should supersede the need of government. 2000 D. Brown (2009) 471 The law states that Election by Adoration supersedes the cardinal eligibility requirements. II. Senses involving replacement. 8. the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > supplant, replace [verb (transitive)] > provide replacement for c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece iv. xiii. f. xlviiv/1 Galdus heirand the deith of his tender freind the kyng of Pichtis, become rycht sorowfull. For it constranit hym to superseid his army aganis the Romanis [L. ob destinatam in Romanos expeditionem]. 1619 D. Calderwood iv. 43 The Lord would have externall adoration superceeded during the use of the meanes, the word & the Sacraments. 1659 H. L'Estrange xi. 318 The Ordinaries [were] flexible at the sollicitations of their subordinate Ministres, allowing them in several places to supersead their former practice. 1744 G. Killingworth iv. 44 Pædobaptists..have also superseded baptism by an act which hath nothing of the nature of baptism in it. 1791 tr. J. B. B. d'Anville 190 This city was Roman; and its environs retained the name of Romangia, till the time when the Arabs invaded the island. They have superseded it with the name of Barbaria, which has extended over all this canton of Sardinia. 1861 F. A. Paley (ed. 2) 841 (note) The genuine ῥῆσις has certainly been superseded. 1873 J. A. Symonds xi. 344 To expurgate the Greek Anthology of Cephalas from impurities and to supersede it by what he considered a more edifying text. 1909 W. James viii. 320 This kind of rationality is just that logic of identity which all disciples of Hegel find insufficient. They supersede it by the higher rationality of negation and contradiction. 1956 58 1000 They superseded animal gods with the personified and deified natural powers (physitheism). 2010 P. Moore 171 God's plans had always been bigger than the birdcage, and he had now superseded it with something far greater. society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] > and substitute another the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject or cast off a person > ignore the claims of or pass over society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)] > pass over in favour of another 1710 J. Swift 26 Sept. (1766) I. 32 He is not yet removed; because they say it will be requisite to supersede him by a successor, which the queen has not fixed on. 1760 149 His Majesty..superseded the Ensign, and gave his Commission to another. 1804 C. Mayo III. 514 Beaulieu having been uniformly unsuccessful, it was thought advisable to supersede him with Wurmser, a general of distinguished talents. 1851 R. Hussey ii. 62 Hilary..deposed one [bishop], and superseded another who was sick..by ordaining one in his place. 1885 H. Taylor I. 298 The Government..was so much misled, or rather misdriven, as to supersede him in office. 1905 R. N. Bain i. 7 The Swedes, irritated by his misrule, superseded him by his own nephew, Albert of Mecklenburg. 1977 R. J. Donovan (1996) i. viii. 78 When [Harry S.] Truman took over he first detained [Isador] Lubin in Washington and then superseded him with Edwin W. Pauley. 2002 F. Millar ii. 33 The Senate has the power either to supersede him in his command at the end of his year of office or to leave him in post (as a proconsul). 9. In passive. the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > refrain from using [verb (transitive)] > discard from use 1642 J. March 16 Our judgement is bound up in, and superseded by theirs [sc. the parliament's]. 1678 S. Butler iii. i. 56 To that alone the Bridegroom's wedded, The Bride a flam, that's superseded. 1697 C. Leslie (ed. 2) 205 This whole Chapter of Burrough's Trumpet..was stifled and superseded by these same Prophets, in the New Edition of Burrough's Works, 1672. 1747 Nov. 525/1 All which methods [of constructing siege engines] are entirely superseded since the invention of cannon and gunpowder. 1788 J. Priestley iv. xviii. 155 In this method, the process of the mind, of reducing intervals of time to lines is superseded, and done in a more accurate manner. 1807 G. Chalmers I. ii. i. 233 This Celtic race was superceded by invading Goths. 1838 T. Arnold I. Pref. p. vi When this work must be superseded by a more perfect history. 1878 C. Stanford (new ed.) i. 24 From the necessity of its present perfection it can never be superseded by an arrangement more complete. 1884 F. Temple (1885) i. 8 The examination of this fact led to the old rule being superseded. 1922 T. M. Lowry xxxii. 598 Gunpowder as a propellant has now been superseded by smokeless powders. 1969 G. B. Nelson i. 14 Liberalism was not to be superseded; it was to be made effective instead of self-defeating. 2007 D. W. Harding ii. 33 By the second Iron Age in Central and Western Europe,..the pin has been largely superseded as a dress-fastener by the safety-pin brooch. 1748 II. 50 Had not he happened..to say once in my Company something that was not agreeable to Gentlemen above him, and so been struck out of the Commission which he laboured in, without View of Profit, and was superseded, to the great Regret of his Neighbours. 1750 W. Douglass II. i. 146 He was superseded by Capt. Finny. 1785 Jan. 14/1 In 1753, on the death of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart...Dr. Nicholls was appointed to succeed him as one of the King's physicians, and held that office till the death of his royal master in 1760, when this most skilful physician was superseded to make way for one who, not long before, had been an army surgeon, of the lowest class. 1820 J. Aikin 239/2 [Matthew] Prior..publicly assumed the character [of ambassador] till he was superseded by the Earl of Stair, on the accession of George I. 1868 E. Edwards I. xviii. 362 Whilst he was yet on his journey..he had been already superseded in his office. 1870 23 Sept. 11/2 The lady superintendent has been ‘superseded’ on account of her inability to account for certain sums of money. 1900 2 Oct. 6/1 To be ‘Stellenbosched’ is the equivalent of being superseded without formal disgrace. 1950 E. M. Coulter vi. 112 Gossips claimed that Quartermaster General Abraham C. Myers was superseded because his wife quarreled with Mrs. Davis. 2009 P. Coby i. 5 The archbishop of Canterbury, William Warham, was superseded as church primate when Thomas Wolsey, already a cardinal, became papal legate and assumed command of the English church. 10. the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > supplant, replace [verb (transitive)] 1657 F. Roberts iv. i. 1239 This New-Covenant succeeds and supercedes them all: But no other shall succeed or supercede this New-Covenant. 1660 S. Pepys 3 July (1970) I. 191 The officers and commissioners of the Navy, we met..and agreed upon orders for the Council to supersede the old. 1711 C. Leslie 4 Mr. Hoadly..thinks that the Supremacy of Adam did Supersede the Supremacy of God. 1766 W. Blackstone ii. xxiii. 376 The statute of Elizabeth..supersedes and repeals all former statutes. 1807 I. D'Israeli 1st Ser. (ed. 5) II. 340 When the Egyptians employed for writing the bark of a plant or reed, called papyrus or paper-rush, it superseded all former modes, because this was the most convenient. 1835 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange (1870) III. iii. 34 [The Athenæum] is the fashionable paper now, having superseded the ‘Literary Gazette’. 1857 J. Ruskin ii. 96 The work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past. 1874 J. R. Green vii. §5. 388 Carpets superseded the filthy flooring of rushes. 1910 J. J. Hamilton x. 91 The present constitution of the United States does not surpass ‘the rope of sand’ it superseded more distinctly than the Des Moines plan excels the older types of city charter in making possible the solution of such problems. 1947 M. L. W. Laistner v. 101 Livy's lifework met with instant acclaim. It superseded earlier histories, and narratives on a large scale of Republican Rome ceased to be composed, at least in Latin. 2003 M. York (2005) i. 50 In the priestly Incan religion, an emphasis on ritual practice superseded direct spirituality or mysticism. society > authority > office > accession or entering upon office or authority > take office [verb (transitive)] > succeed and supplant another 1755 Oct. 483/2 The brave and generous lord Delawar resolved to go out again to supersede him, by taking the government upon himself. 1777 W. Robertson I. ii. 154 Francis de Bovadilla..was appointed to repair to Hispaniola,..and if he found the charge of mal-administration proved, to supersede him, and assume the government of the island. 1799 Ld. Nelson 25 Mar. in (1845) III. 306 Captain Maling takes his passage to supersede Captain Nisbet in the Bonne Citoyenne. 1828 W. F. Napier I. ii. iii. 174 Sir Charles Cotton, after superseding sir Sidney Smith, had blockaded the mouth of the Tagus. 1848 C. Dickens lviii. 584 This was the very Mrs. Wickam who had superseded Mrs. Richards as the nurse of little Paul. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky I. i. 150 His brilliant and impetuous colleague was in both quarters rapidly superseding him. 1936 N. Collins i. 18 From the moment Mr. Primrose appeared behind his own mahogany and superseded the barmaid, he dominated everything. 1969 Z. S. Steiner 50 It seems doubtful whether this old statesman kept abreast of foreign matters... Balfour superseded him as the head of the newly-reconstructed Defence Committee. 2009 R. R. Meyers 25 Jesus..supersedes both John the Baptist and Moses. Derivatives society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [adjective] > and replaced by another the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > [adjective] > replaced the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [adjective] > fallen out of use or obsolete 1761 J. Reed i. 4 Why thou art as melancholy as a superceded Placeman. a1831 A. Knox (1844) I. 86 Superstition—such as the Jews retained for their superseded law. 1883 Sept. 645 The superseded constable's prosecution for ‘railing’ at the marshal who supplanted him! 1906 W. M. F. Petrie vii. 56 [Seb] was the ‘prince of the gods’,..the superseded Saturn of Egyptian theology. 2002 4/1 Last years Best Buy, the Mercedes-Benz E-class has just been replaced by a new model, but the superseded one is still a good nearly-new choice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  v.1433 |
