rare. [f. next: see -ENCE.] The fact of being superincumbent.
a. 1837. Sir E. Brydges (Worcester, 1860).
1846. Landor, Imag. Conv., Odysseus, etc. Wks. I. 397/1. The highest nations are gasping for existence, crushed by the superincumbence of the lowest.
So Superincumbency (Ogilvie, 1850).
