[-ING2.] That surmounts.
† 1. Surpassing, excelling, exceeding. Obs.
c. 1407. Lydg., Reson & Sens., 5102. So excellent and so notable, Surmountyng and delytable. Ibid. (1412–20), Chron. Troy, I. 4352. Be-cause sche was surmountyng of bewte.
c. 1500. Proverb, in Antiq. Rep. (1809), IV. 393. The sermountynge pleasure, who can expresse, Whiche is in armony of songe?
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., I. (1879), 76. Taking a singular felicity & surmounting pleasure in seeing them to go plumed and decked in the Feathers of deceiptfull vanity.
1593. G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., 18. Exceeding Aretine himselfe; that bestowed the surmountingest amplifications at his pleasure.
1627. Lisander & Cal., X. 215. The admirable attractions of her surmounting beauty.
1685. Otway, Windsor Castle, 137. That good Angel whose surmounting Power Waited Great Charles in each emergent hour.
1752. R. Shirra, in Rem. (1850), 188. The absolute freedom and surmounting sovereignty of his grace.
† 2. Arising or resulting from addition. Obs.
1571. Digges, Pantom., II. xvii. O ij. Square the sides … and the productes seuerally multiplie in the number of perches to bee taken away, the surmountyng summes diuide by the Area of the whole triangle.
3. Situated above or on the top of something.
1661. Morgan, Sph. Gentry, I. iv. 52. A Surmounting Star, is a bearing, denoting Sons of such a father who was advanced by Vertue.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. xix. 472/2. Schepsen of Silisia hath for his Crest seven such [viz. blades of grass], each surmounting and imbowed to the sinister.
1902. Academy, 12 April, 379/1. His [Leigh Hunt’s] bookcases with their surmounting busts.
