superstructure

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Thus he has, only, made a small Mistake of the Means conducing to the end, for the End itself; and of the Superstructure for the Foundation.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

Superstructure, sū-pėr-strukt′ūr, n. a structure above or on something else: anything erected on a foundation—also Superstruc′tion.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Every Superstructure which the Court of France built upon their first Designs, which were in themselves vicious, was suitable to its false Foundation.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

When they have laid these Foundations of Scurrility, it is no wonder that their Superstructure is every way answerable to them.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

These Posts are bigger or less, according to the intended magnificence of the Superstructure.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 by Blair, Emma Helen