superabound

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It is possible that nitrates may superabound in the soil from the oxydizement of the nitrogen of a superfluity of ammonia.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William

Therefore spodizators, gesinins, memains, and parazons, be not culpable of dilatory protractions in the apposition of every re-roborating species, but rather let them pullulate and superabound on the tables.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed, and, to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Could I but work that force as an ideal I felt it must see me through, for the beauty of it in that form was that it should absolutely superabound.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry

As to the number of our clergymen, it is large enough at present, there being but few settlements unsupplied with a ministry and some superabound.

From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.