Obs. [ad. OF. superplusage or med.L. superplusagium: see prec. and -AGE.] = SURPLUSAGE.
1450. Rolls of Parlt., V. 194/1. Aunsweryng to oure saide Progenitours of the superplusage.
1509–10. Chr. Coll. Acc., in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), II. 196. The superplusage of the last acccmpt xl li.
1543. Richmond Wills (Surteees), 48. The superplusage and overplus of my goods, above not bewhethed.
1583. in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), Table iii. 360–1. The Superplusage of his lasie Declaratione ended vltimo Octobris.
1621. Donne, Serm. Christmas Day (1649), II. 333. Their Doctrine of Supererogation, that a man might do so much more then he was bound to do for God, as that that superplusage might save whom he would.
1661. J. Fell, Hammond, 14. A stock was rais’d … for the apprentising of young Children…. And after this there yet remain’d a Superplusage for the assistance of the neighbour Parishes.
