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(verb) : sŭper-sum, fui, esse (old collat. form of the
* Pres. superescit, Enn. and Att. ap. Fest. p. 302 Müll.; per tmesin: jamque adeo super unus eram,Verg. A. 2, 567: nihil erat super,Nep. Alcib. 8, 1)
* To be over and above, either as a remainder or as a superfluity (class. and very freq.; cf. supero, B. 3.).
* As a remainder, to be left, to remain, to exist still.
* For adesse, to be present, to serve by being present, to assist: si superesset (opp. sin deesset), Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 56.—Esp., to serve as an advocate: falsa atque aliena verbi significatio, quod dicitur, hic illi superest, cum dicendum est, advocatum esse, etc.,Gell. 1, 22, 1.
* To be over or beyond, to be prominent, project, Val. Fl. 6, 760.
* In a bad sense, to be in excess, to be superabundant or superfluous: ut vis ejus rei, quam definias, sic exprimatur, ut neque absit quicquam neque supersit,Cic. de Or. 2, 25, 108; cf. Varr. ap. Gell. 1, 22, 5 and 6.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary