super columniation

[Pref. super-, and Eng. columniation (q. v.). Arch.: The placing of one order upon another. sù-per-con-çěp-tion, s. [Pref. super- , and Eng, conception (q. v.).] A conception upon a former conception; superfetation. "In those super conceptions , where one child was like the father, the other like the adulterer."- Browne : Fulgar Errors , bk. iii., ch. xvii. *sū-per-con-form-i-ty, s. [Pref. super- , and Eng. conformity .] Scrupulous attention to unimportant rites and ceremonies. "A peevish conformity or a pragmatic super con for mity ."-Gauden: Tears of the Church, p. 113. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, põt, super consequence *sū-per-con-se-quençe, s. [Pref. super- , and Eng. consequence (q. v.).] A remote consequence. "They are fain to omit their super consequences , figures, or tropologies." - Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. i., ch. iii. *sū-per-crěs-çençe, s. [ Lat.super =above, and crescens, pr. par. of cresco =to grow. That which grows upon another growing thing; a parasite. "Wherever it [the mistletoe] groweth, it is of constant shape, and maintains a regular figure, like other supercrescences, and such as living upon the stock of others are termed parasitical plants."-Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. ii., ch. vi. *sū-për-crěs-çent, adj . [SUPERCRESCENCE.] Growing upon some other growing thing; parasitic. sù-per-crē-tā-çě-oŭs (or ceo us as shus), adj . [SUPRA CRETACEOUS.] *sü-per-crit-lc-al, a. [Pref. super- , and Eng. critical.] Exce ively critical; hypercritical. ( Gau den: Tears of the Church , p. 15.) sü-per-cür-loŭs, adj . [Pref.super-, and Eng. curious (q. v.).] Exce ively or exceedingly curious. sù-per-dăm-in-ant, s. [Pref. super- , and Eng. Music: The note above the dominant; the sixth dominant (g. v.).] note of the diatonic scale; thus a is the super dom i nant in the scale of C, E in the scale of G,