superincumbent

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The priests—the worshippers, where were they? sleeping beneath the ruins of the crumbling chancel; their high or holy names, which no man remembers, carved deep in the superincumbent marble.

From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt

It was buried up in a mass of superincumbent ruins, and was only brought to light in the course of my laborious excavations.

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.

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.

These granitic masses have upheaved the superincumbent beds of stratified rocks, partly melting them.

From Cornwall 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