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Dryden.

2. (Railway Engin.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.

Su`per*sub*stan"tial (?), a. [Pref. super- + substantial: cf. F. supersubstantiel.] More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.

Su`per*sub"tle (?), a. Too subtle. Shak.

Su`per*sul"phate (?), n. (Chem.) An acid sulphate. [Obs.]

Su`per*sul"phu*ret`ed (?), a. (Chem.) Supersulphurized. [Obs.] [Written also - sulphuretted.]

Su`per*sul"phur*ize (?), v. t. (Chem.) To impregnate or combine with an excess of sulphur.

Su`per*tem"po*ral (?), n. That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal. [R.]

Su`per*ter*ra"ne*an (?), a. Being above ground. "Superterranean quarries." Mrs. Trollope.

Su`per*ter*rene" (?), a. [Pref. super- + terrene: cf. L. superterrenus.] Being above ground, or above the earth. [R.]

Su`per*ter*res"tri*al (?), a. Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth. Buckminster.

Su`per*ton"ic (?), n. (Mus.) The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale. Busby.

Su`per*trag"ic*al (?), a. Tragical to excess.

Su`per*tu`ber*a"tion (?), n. [Pref. super- + tuber.] (Bot.) The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.

Su`per*va*ca"ne*ous (?), a. [L. supervacaneus, supervacuus; super over + vacuus empty.] Serving no purpose; superfluous; needless. [Obs.] Howell.

Su`per*vene" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Supervened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Supervening.] [L. supervenire, superventum, to come over, to come upon; super over + venire to come. See Super-, and Come, and cf. Overcome.] To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unless impressed by divine power.

Bentley.

A tyrany immediately supervened.

Burke.

Su`per*ven"ient (?), a. [L. superveniens, p. pr.] Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards.

That branch of belief was in him supervenient to Christian practice.

Hammond.

Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes.

Z. Swift.

Su`per*ven"tion (?), n. [L. superventio.] The act of supervening. Bp. Hall.

Su`per*vis"al (?), n. Supervision. Walpole.

Su`per*vise" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supervised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Supervising.] [Pref. super- + L. visere to look at attentively, to view, surely, intens. from videre, visum, to see. Cf. Survise, and Survey.] 1. To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.