The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supersede \Su`per*sede"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Superseded; p. pr. & vb. n. Superseding.] [L. supersedere, supersessum, to sit above, be superior to, forbear, omit; super above + sedere to sit: cf. F. supers['e]der. See Sit, and cf. Surcease.]
To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
To displace, or set aside, and put another in place of; as, to supersede an officer.
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To make void, inefficacious, or useless, by superior power, or by coming in the place of; to set aside; to render unnecessary; to suspend; to stay.
Nothing is supposed that can supersede the known laws of natural motion.
--Bentley. (Old Law) To omit; to forbear.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: supersede)
Usage examples of "superseded".
Every sin was expiated, every engagement was dissolved: the vow of celibacy was superseded by the indulgence of nature.
Stephen's blood was annually liquefied at Naples, till he was superseded by St.
These lower-level forces and properties, however, have been superseded in successive steps, encompassed or enveloped as it were, by those forces of increasingly complex organizational entities.
A higher stage of development of productive forces and of social integration does bring relief from problems of the superseded [previous] social formation.
The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction.
Helicopters are more used than they were formerly, bombing planes have been largely superseded by self-propelled projectiles, and the fragile movable battleship has given way to the almost unsinkable Floating Fortress.
It was expected that Newspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak (or Standard English, as we should call it) by about the year 2050.
When Oldspeak had been once and for all superseded, the last link with the past would have been severed.
But now Vance's demise had been superseded by a larger, and fresher, tragedy.
Tesla, in her frequent railings against the New Hollywood, saved the sourest venom for these, the business-school types who'd superseded the old-style studio bosses, Warner, Selznick, Goldwyn and their clan, to rule the dream factories with their demographics and their calculators.
Once over the threshold the innocents had disappeared from his mind's eye, superseded by a sharper distress.