surabundant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From sur- (“variant of super-”) + abundant; compare French surabondant (“superabundant”).
Adjective[edit]
surabundant (comparative more surabundant, superlative most surabundant)
- (rare) Overly abundant; superabundant.
- 1976, Nicholas Horsfall, “The Collegium Poetarum”, in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, number 23, London: Institute of Classical Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90:
- In the terminology of collegia, for which there is surabundant evidence, modifiers in titles are adjectives proper and usually in the -arius form — e.g. exoneratores calciarii, fabri soliarii baxiarii, mensores et mercatores frumentarii.
- 1983 [1887], Anonymous [Stanislas de Rhodes], The Autobiography of a Flea, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 76:
- The idea of the horrid incest he contemplated evidently added fuel to his excitement, and produced within him a surabundant [originally: "superabundant"] sensation of lustful impatience, which exhibited itself no less in his inflamed countenance than in the siffened and erected shaft which now menaced Bella's moistened parts.
- 1996, Ernest Benz, “Population Change and the Economy”, in Sheilagh Ogilvie, editor, Germany: A New Social and Economic History, Volume 2: 1630–1800, London […]: Arnold, →ISBN, page 50:
- Having to feed an increasing number of mouths from fragmenting holdings, they intensified their agricultural practices. The problem of surabundant population was transformed into the solution of demand for more labour.