superstruction

English

Noun

superstruction (plural superstructions)

1. The act of superstructing, or building upon.
   • 1852, George T. Clark, “Kidwelly Castle”, in The Castles of Kidwelly and Caephilly, and of Castell Coch‎^[1], London: W. Pickering, page 8:

     The wall has been thickened to give dept to the gateway, and possibly to allow of the superstruction of a low tower above it.

2. That which is built on some foundation; an edifice; a superstructure.
   • 1668, John Denham, Preface to the translation of two poems, in Poems and Translations, 6th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, 1719, p. 89,^[2]

     […] for I love not to improve the Honour of the Living, by impairing that of the Dead; and my own Profession hath taught me, not to erect new Superstructions upon an old Ruin.

   • 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals‎^[3], 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 17:

     Since virtuous superstructions have commonly generous foundations, dive into thy inclinations, and early discover what nature bids thee to be, or tells thee thou may’st be.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “superstruction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)