overplus
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Complete expresses not excess or overplus, and yet not mere sufficiency, but harmony, proportion, fitness to a design, or ideal.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
The rent may then be taken, including all expences, and the overplus left in the hands of the constable for the owner's use.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
His face—that of a man whom a sufficiency, but not an overplus, of food and wine and tobacco had put into just accord with the World about him—expressed little but bewilderment.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Marshall, Archibald
The 427 overplus, which is not very considerable, goes to the profit of the city.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various
At the end of each year, the account is balanced, and the overplus or deficit is transferred to the succeeding one.
From Religion in Japan by Cobbold, George A. (George Augustus)
