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supercede

supercede verb: variant spelling of supersede.

Verb

supercede (third-person singular simple present supercedes, present participle superceding, simple past and past participle superceded)

  1. (misspelling, nonstandard) Variant spelling of supersede.
    • 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.1857, The American Law Register - On the Doctrine of Uses as an Element of our Law of Conveyances, Vol. 6, № 2/3
    • 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.2000, Juliet Floyd, Hilary Putnam, The Journal of Philosophy - A Note on Wittgenstein’s “Notorious Paragraph” about the Godel Theorem, Vol. 97, № 11

supercede meaning in Tamil

supercede in Tamil

கலைத்துக் கைக்கொள், தாண்டி நிற்றல்

Forms of supercede

third-person singular presentsupercedes
present participlesuperceding
past participlesuperceded
pastsuperceded

Origin of supercede

From Middle English superceden, from Middle French superceder, from Latin supersedēre: super- (“over-”) + sedēre (“to sit”).

Questions about supercede

What does supercede mean?
Supercede means variant spelling of supersede.
What is supercede in Tamil?
Supercede in Tamil is கலைத்துக் கைக்கொள், தாண்டி நிற்றல். See Supercede meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is supercede?
Supercede is a verb.
What is the past tense of supercede?
The past tense of supercede is superceded.

Words near supercede in the dictionary

  1. supercavitated
  2. supercavitates
  3. supercavitating
  4. supercavitation
  5. supercavitations
  6. supercede
  7. superceded
  8. supercedes
  9. superceding
  10. supercee
  11. superceed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supercede (page history and authors); supercede (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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