Chiefly Sc. Obs. [a. med.L. superplus: see SUPER- 13 and PLUS.] = SURPLUS.
1561. Reg. Privy Council Scot. (1877), I. 193. Samekle thairof to be employit to the Quenis Majestie…, and samekle thairof to the ministeris…; and the excrescence and superplus to be assignit to the auld possessouris.
1584. B. R., trans. Herodotus, I. 14. Wt a superplus & addition of 24 powndes.
1591. R. Bruce, Serm., v. L iij. And when, efter their maner; they haue satisfied him, they make a superplus, quhilk they call workes of supererogatioun.
1641. in Fasti Aberd. (1854), 157. They ordene the superplus of the rents of the said bischoprik to be imployed upone the reparatione of the edifices of the said colledges.
1687. [Shields], Hind let loose, 105. A superplus of Caution.
1760. C. Johnston, Chrysal (1822), I. 24. To employ the super-plus in acts of private benevolence.
1762. Goldsm., Ess., Female Warriors. There must be a superplus of the other sex.
1796. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), IV. 224. A superplus of time from that which is employed in providing for his natural wants.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 172. The cold-water pump F keeps up an abundant supply in the cistern EE, and the superplus is discharged at W.
