v. Obs. rare. [f. L. superposit-, pa. ppl. stem of superpōnĕre: see SUPER- III and POSIT v.] trans. To place above others; to exalt.
1661. Feltham, Resolves, II. xiv. (ed. 8), 207. Without it [sc. power], he were not God: ’tis that which distinguisheth and super-posits him above all.
