supercedes

English

Verb

supercedes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of supercede: misspelling of supersedes.
   • 1857, On the Doctrine of Uses as an Element of our Law of Conveyances, in The American Law Register, Vol. 6, No. 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, A Note on Wittgenstein's "Notorious Paragraph" about the Godel Theorem, in The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 97, No. 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, Queer Brinksmanship: Citizenship and the Solomon Wars, in The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 112, No. 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.