The Collaborative International Dictionary
Superincumbent
Superincumbent \Su`per*in*cum"bent\, a. [L. superincumbens, p. pr. of superincumbere. See Super-, and Incumbent.] Lying or resting on something else.
Wiktionary
superincumbent
a. (context chiefly science English) lie or resting on something else; overlying.
WordNet
superincumbent
adj. lying or resting on and exerting pressure on something else; "superincumbent layers of dead plants cut off the air and arrested decomposition"
Usage examples of "superincumbent".
They were over the capstones of the windows,- -to take off the pressure from them, no doubt, for now and then a capstone will crack under the weight of the superincumbent mass.
But in life--as we have elsewhere seen--this inclined plane is angularly filled up, and almost squared by the enormous superincumbent mass of the junk and sperm.