superficies

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He’s the king of superficies: you fall in love with his Puppy immediately, involuntarily, unironically.

From The Guardian • Jul. 3, 2014

“You cannot stop the superficies of objects from evaporation,” he said.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The Seltzer Town mound contains a superficies of eight acres on its summit.

From The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe by Bartlett, John Russell

The whole superficies of these shoals is equal to about one-third of the whole extent of England and Scotland.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

"Without form," intelligible enough as a metaphor, if taken literally, is absurd; for a material thing existing in space must have a superficies, and if it has a superficies it has a form.

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.