surtop

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6

Definition of surtop

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive, uncommon)To overtop, to be on top of.
    “In so much that at Rome Liberius, at Hierusalem Cyrillus, at Alexandria George, did filchingly and shamefully gouerne all Churches with hereticall dissembling, and so vehemently persecuted the Catholickes, that this persecution seemed to surtop all passed persecutions of former tyrants.”
    “At the head of the principal division, and the one that was to be in the lead, was the formidable king himself, whose giant frame, surtopped with the tallest of plumes, was the most conspicuous figure in the whole army.”
    “Today if we should see a physician on the highway a-la-Prince Albert, surtopped by a plug hat, we should almost immediately regard him as a “quack.””

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Etymology

From sur- + top.

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