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surplusage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surplusage \Sur"plus*age\, n. [See Surplus, and cf. Superplusage.]
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Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.
Take what thou please of all this surplusage.
--Spenser.A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
--Emerson. (Law) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected.
(Accounts) A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to. [Obs.]
--Rees.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Medieval Latin surplusagium, from surplus (see surplus).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) A surplus; a superabundance. 2 (context legal English) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and may be rejected. 3 (context finance English) A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.
WordNet
Wikipedia
In jurisprudence, surplusage is a useless statement completely irrelevant to the cause. Surplusages may be included in any declaration, plea, or claim. According to LectLaw
Another use of the term is in Statutory interpretation where one reading of a statute would make one or more parts of the statute redundant and another reading would avoid the redundancy, the other reading is preferred.
Usage examples of "surplusage".
Upon the observer there was impressed the conviction that here was a skull denoting, by surplusage of length, great precision of character and disposition to action, and, by deficiency of breadth, a narrow tenacity which might at times amount to wrong-headedness.
Again, each species has its trials which appear in time to moderate its surplusage, and Fabre expounds for us, with a stern philosophy, the terrible devices by which this repression is effected.
The lesser guests Are fain to steal unnoticed from a scene Wherein they feel themselves as surplusage Beside the official minds.
Science had stripped off the surplusage, run it through the wringer of two-valued logic, and placed the knowledge in a form in which anyone could use it.
As for arch-bishops, arch-deacons, deans, rural deans, and all the other worldly machinery which has been superadded to the church, the truth compels us to add, that our divine felt no especial reverence since he considered them as so much clerical surplusage, of very questionable authority, and of doubtful use.
By the former is meant the inner movement of mind or spirit, which must be of such depth and force as to leave a surplusage after the material needs of existence have been met.
That out of her danger had resulted the engagement Diane had hoped for was surplusage of good luck.
And yet there remained a surplusage of unappropriated soul, whose vague and constant action distressed her.