Obs. rare.
1. [SUPER- 10.] Increase in excess. Sc.
1499. Reg. Privy Seal Scotl., I. 51/1. To ansuer to the king of the superexcrescence of the proffitis.
1549. D. Monro, West. Isles, in Macfarlane’s Geogr. Collect. (S.H.S.), III. (1908), 301. The superexcrescens of the said ky and sheipe.
2. [SUPER- 3.] An excrescence growing over a surface.
Cf. late L. superexcrescĕre.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., IV. v. 321. After the Escar separated, I rubb’d the remaining Superexcrescence with a Vitriol-stone.
