exuperate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin exuperatus, exsuperatus, past participle of exuperare, exsuperare (to excel); ex (out) + superare (to go over), super (above, over).

Verb[edit]

exuperate (third-person singular simple present exuperates, present participle exuperating, simple past and past participle exuperated)

  1. (obsolete) To excel; to surmount.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exuperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

exuperāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of exuperō