Meanings
present singular third person superpleases · participle present superpleasing · participle past superpleased · past superpleased
- transitiveTo please exceedingly.
But careless of all vulgar censure, as not depending on common approbation, he is confident it shall superplease judicious spectators
1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
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