supercede

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verb

Variant spelling of supersede.

UncommonScrabble 14

Meanings

verbsupercede (third-person singular simple present supercedes, present participle superceding, simple past and past participle superceded)

present singular third person supercedes · participle present superceding · participle past superceded · past superceded

  1. 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, № 3
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    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, № 2/3

    They 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

  1. Latinsupersedēre
  2. Middle Frenchsuperceder
  3. Middle Englishsuperceden
  4. Englishsupercede

From Middle English superceden, from Middle French superceder, from Latin supersedēre: super- (“over-”) + sedēre (“to sit”).

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APA

supercede. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercede

MLA

“supercede.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercede. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “supercede,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercede.

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