superambient

Adjective

superambient (comparative more superambient, superlative most superambient)

1. Of a fluid that circulates or is located above.
   • They are both bottom dwellers of necessity, although they take occasional excursions into the superambient water, but quickly fall back, from the force of gravity, to the bottom. These excursions into the superambient liquid are effected by the motion of the caudal fin from side to side.1867, American Society of Naturalists, The American Naturalist, American Society of Naturalists, University of Chicago Press, page 81
2. Of physical quantity: superior to the immediate surroundings; exceeding the general level of the environment.
   • But though thus secluded almost from the cheering radiance of the sun, and bound as a felon in the mystic fetters of enchantment, the untiring vessel, yielding to the auspicious influence of the atmosphere, progressed in dashing style over the restless billows of the main. Mo mysterious incantation...1858, John Jack, Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments Originally Treated, W. P. Nimmo, page 282
   • And so the pinions flapped away, the dreadful cavalcade of clouds followed, we broke the waterspout, raced the whirlwind, hunted the thunder to his caverns, rushed through the light and wind-tost mountains of the snow, pierced with a crash the thick sea of ice, that like a globe of hollow glass...1859, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments Originally Treated, E. O. Libby, page 262