(adjective) : sŭper-văcānĕus, a, um, vacuus
* Over and above what is necessary, needless, unnecessary, superfluous, supervacaneous (class.): vasa,supernumerary, extra,Cato, R. R. 12: opus,i. e. done at leisure hours,Cic. Sen. 16, 56: litterae,id. Att. 16, 2, 5: commemoratio officiorum,id. Fam. 3, 5, 1: oratio,Liv. 22, 39: defensio Pauli,id. 45, 37: iter,id. 21, 13: actio,Just. 11, 12 fin.: instituta (opp. necessaria),Suet. Rhet. 1: quicquid supervacaneum sit, aut usum non habeat, obstare,Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 99; cf.: omnia ita nata atque ita locata sunt, ut nihil eorum supervacaneum sit,id. ib. 2, 47, 121: descriptio omnium corporis partium, in quā nihil inane, nihil sine causā, nihil supervacaneum,id. ib. 1, 33, 92: de timore supervacaneum est disserere,Sall. C. 51, 19; 58, 11: quin alter consul pro supervacaneo atque inutili habeatur,Liv. 10, 24.—* Adv.: sŭper-văcānĕō, uselessly, superfluously. Front. Ep. ad Caes. 4, 3 med.