Meanings
present singular third person supercedes · participle present superceding · participle past superceded · past superceded
- misspellingnonstandardVariant spelling of supersede.
The DoD may contend that the consolidated Solomon Amendment, passed in 1999, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 § 549, supercedes the regulations.
2002, Amy Kapczynski, The Yale Law Journal - Queer Brinksmanship: Citizenship and the Solomon Wars, Vol. 112, № 32 more examples
To it a new species of conveyancing owes its origin, which dispenses with livery of seisin, and almost entirely supercedes, in practice, the employment of common law deeds.
1857, The American Law Register - On the Doctrine of Uses as an Element of our Law of Conveyances, Vol. 6, № 2/3They saw themselves as providing a freestanding “ideal language” or “concept-language,” what W. V. Quine has called a first-grade conceptual scheme, which in some sense supercedes ordinary language.
2000, Juliet Floyd, Hilary Putnam, The Journal of Philosophy - A Note on Wittgenstein’s “Notorious Paragraph” about the Godel Theorem, Vol. 97, № 11
Origin
- Latinsupersedēre
- Middle Frenchsuperceder
- Middle Englishsuperceden
- Englishsupercede
From Middle English superceden, from Middle French superceder, from Latin supersedēre: super- (“over-”) + sedēre (“to sit”).
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