suraddition

English

Etymology

French suraddition

Noun

suraddition (plural suradditions)

1. (obsolete) Something added or appended, as to a name.

   Synonym: superaddition

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     [He]had his titles by Tenantius, whom
     He serv'd with glory and admir'd success,
     So gain'd the suraddition Leonatus

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suraddition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)