English
Etymology
From ME. term|superceden|langenm, from MF. term|superceder|langfrm, from L. term|supersedere|langla: term|super-||over-|langla + term|sedere||to sit|lang=la.
Verb
en-verb|supercedes|superceding|superceded
- misspelling of|supersede
#* 1491: Acta Dom. Conc.
#*: He sall supercede þe payment of þe said v<sup>c</sup> frankis.
#* 1857: The American Law Register � On the Doctrine of Uses as an Element of our Law of Conveyances, Vol. 6, � 2/3
#*: To it a new species of conveyancing owes its origin, which dispenses with livery of seisin, and almost entirely supercedes, in practice, the employment of common law deeds.
#* 2000: Juliet Floyd & Hilary Putnam, The Journal of Philosophy � A Note on Wittgenstein�s �Notorious Paragraph� about the Godel Theorem, Vol. 97, � 11
#*: They saw themselves as providing a freestanding �ideal language� or �concept-language,� what W. V. Quine has called a first-grade conceptual scheme, which in some sense supercedes ordinary language.
#* 2002: Amy Kapczynski, The Yale Law Journal � Queer Brinksmanship: Citizenship and the Solomon Wars, Vol. 112, � 3
#*: The DoD? may contend that the consolidated Solomon Amendment, passed in 1999, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 § 549, supercedes the regulations.
Usage notes
The form term|supercede|langen is commonly considered a misspelling of term|supersede|langen, since it results from confusion between L. term|cedere||give up, yield|langla and term|sedere||to sit|langla.<ref>�supercede� in Paul Brians, Common Errors in English.</ref> The original L. word was term|supersedere||to sit above|lang=la, but the �c� spelling began to be used in MF. and appeared in w:English language|English as early as the 1400s. It is still commonly used today, and may be found as a variant in some dictionaries.<ref>�supercede� in the Merriam�Webster Online Dictionary.</ref>
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