Obs. rare. [f. L. superāt-, pa. ppl. stem of superāre: see prec. and -ATE3.]
1. trans. To rise above, overtop.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 113/2. Take the flowers of Verwene,… infuse heeron oyle Olive, that the flowers may be superatede & covered the depth of thre fingers. Ibid., 200/1. Burye both these pots … that the earth may superate the superior pot, the altitude of a qv[arter] of a yarde.
2. To surpass, exceed.
1596. J. Trussell, in Southwell, Triumphs over Death, To Rdr. That when a tempest comes their Barke to tosse, Their passions shall not superate their losse.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Superate,… to exceed, to excel.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., I. VI. xxvi. 387. A Physician … who being accustomed to eat bitter almonds would superate all in drinking [orig. omnes potando superabat].
3. To overcome, conquer; to get over, surmount.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 49/2. The Patient might be wholy superated and overcome, and fall downe dead.
1653. Gauden, Hierasp., 364. Unexpected enchantments,… which salve all inconveniences, superate all hyperbolies, and transcend all difficulties.
1691. W. Nicholls, Answ. Naked Gospel, 18. He does not enumerate all the difficulties their Faith was to superate.
1788. Trifler, No. 25. 325. I … can superate a mortification in any part of the body without amputation.
