"superincumbent" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "superincumbentem"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin superincumbentem",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "super-",
        "3": "incumbent"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, super- + incumbent",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin superincumbentem, present participle of superincumbere. By surface analysis, super- + incumbent.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more superincumbent",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most superincumbent",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "superincumbent (comparative more superincumbent, superlative most superincumbent)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with super-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sciences",
          "orig": "en:Sciences",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 61:",
          "text": "As the vapour cooled the water would be precipitated, and an ocean would surround the spherical nucleus with a superincumbent atmosphere.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. I, Phenomena”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):",
          "text": "[…] alas, on the contrary, what troops and populations of Phantasms, not God-Veracities but Devil-Falsities, down to the very lowest stratum, — which now, by such superincumbent weight of Unveracities, lies enchanted in St. Ives’ Workhouses, broad enough, helpless enough!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 87:",
          "text": "The older Verrucano must have travelled to its present position as it slid and ground its way on the back of the oppressed Lochseiten limestone, which buckled and churned under the superincumbent load.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lying or resting on something else; overlying."
      ],
      "id": "en-superincumbent-en-adj-z3RlW1Xh",
      "links": [
        [
          "sciences",
          "sciences"
        ],
        [
          "Lying",
          "lie"
        ],
        [
          "rest",
          "rest"
        ],
        [
          "overlying",
          "overlying"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly sciences) Lying or resting on something else; overlying."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/suːpəɹɪnˈkʌmbənt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "superincumbent"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "superincumbentem"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin superincumbentem",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "super-",
        "3": "incumbent"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, super- + incumbent",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin superincumbentem, present participle of superincumbere. By surface analysis, super- + incumbent.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more superincumbent",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most superincumbent",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "superincumbent (comparative more superincumbent, superlative most superincumbent)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms prefixed with super-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Sciences"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 61:",
          "text": "As the vapour cooled the water would be precipitated, and an ocean would surround the spherical nucleus with a superincumbent atmosphere.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. I, Phenomena”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):",
          "text": "[…] alas, on the contrary, what troops and populations of Phantasms, not God-Veracities but Devil-Falsities, down to the very lowest stratum, — which now, by such superincumbent weight of Unveracities, lies enchanted in St. Ives’ Workhouses, broad enough, helpless enough!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 87:",
          "text": "The older Verrucano must have travelled to its present position as it slid and ground its way on the back of the oppressed Lochseiten limestone, which buckled and churned under the superincumbent load.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lying or resting on something else; overlying."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sciences",
          "sciences"
        ],
        [
          "Lying",
          "lie"
        ],
        [
          "rest",
          "rest"
        ],
        [
          "overlying",
          "overlying"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly sciences) Lying or resting on something else; overlying."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/suːpəɹɪnˈkʌmbənt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "superincumbent"
}