superincumbent

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Occasionally, when the whale blows just as it is rising out of or sinking in the sea, a little of the superincumbent water may be forced upwards by the column of breath.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)

No water can percolate athwart it, and consequently where it is, there the superincumbent soil is resolved into a quagmire.

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

Yet these are hidden beneath a superincumbent mass of trivialities.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

The internal pilasters, which form an architrave for the northern window, spring from grotesque heads, elaborately carved, and which appear as if pressed down by the superincumbent weight.

From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous

But Sir Gilbert Scott thought that if a bit of the superincumbent stone was raised, some portion of the more ancient monument might exist beneath.

From The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History by Kingsley, Rose Georgina