superstructとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌsuːpə(ɹ)ˈstɹʌkt/

動詞

superstruct (third-person singular simple present superstructs, present participle superstructing, simple past and past participle superstructed)

1. (archaic, chiefly figurative) To build over or upon (another structure); to erect upon (a foundation).
   • 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:

     This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocency and then virtue.

参照

• “superstruct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.