superincumbent

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These boulders have withstood the wreck of ages, but the weather-beaten rocks under them are so worn as here and there to present the appearance of pedestals bearing up the superincumbent masses.

From The South Isles of Aran by Burke, Oliver J.

The superincumbent mass of earth would crush the strongest metal.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

Much of the superincumbent earth and stone had fallen, dislodged by the vibrations caused by the picks of the men smashing up the chalk blocks, and the passage was completely choked.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Elsewhere he accounts for the diminished pressure on the top of a mountain by the diminished weight of the superincumbent column of air.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

The levee of her commercial emporium literally trembles, in a frontage of nine miles, beneath the superincumbent masses of merchandise.

From The Slavery Question Speech of Hon. John M. Landrum, of La., Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 27, 1860 by Landrum, John M.