superincumbent

Duplicates of each were ranged in opposition, until the table groaned with its superincumbent weight.

A banded column, such as we see in Early English Gothic, looks weak and incapable of supporting the superincumbent weight.

Below us slept the waters of the bay, reflecting, in their crystal depths, the superincumbent mountains and overarching sky.

An idea may thus be gained of the very considerable amount of superincumbent materials.

Secondly, the superincumbent strata can be assigned to one period only of the archaeological series, viz.