a. (sb.) Now rare. [f. L. superstruct-: see SUPERSTRUCT and -IVE.] Belonging to the superstructure; = SUPERSTRUCTURAL: opposed to fundamental.
1642. Fuller, Answ. to Dr. Ferne, 8. If it bee written it is superstructive and not fundamentall; written Laws, that were not Lawes before written, are repealeable and alterable.
1654. Hammond, Fundamentals, xvii. Wks. 1674, I. 319. Nothing but the removing his Fundamental error can rescue him from the superstructive.
1903. R. Bridges, Poems Classical Prosody, Ep. i. 228. Laying foundation of its knowledge in physical law,… erecting Superstructive of all … a new Science of Man.
† B. sb. Something belonging to or constituting the superstructure. Obs.
1625. Mountagu, App. Cæsar, 120. I divided also the objects of erring or not erring, two wayes: into Fundamentalls, or superstructives.
1644. Hunton, Vind. Treat. Monarchy, v. 37. The Common Lawes, which are … the basis and foundation of this Government, the Statute Lawes being but after superstructives.
So Superstructor, one who builds a superstructure; Superstructory a., = next.
1650. R. Hollingworth, Exerc. conc. Usurped Powers, 16. You subvert all setled Laws, whether fundamentall or superstructory.
1652. R. Robinson, Christ all, xxii. (1656), 424. A house whose corners are laid with precious stones, and whose Superstructory stones are all lively stones.
a. 1734. North, Exam., I. iii. (1740), 193. Was Oates’s Narrative a Foundation or a Superstructure, or was he one of the Superstructors or not?
