The phenomenon is called supersedure and a sizeable number of celebrities and social figures would vouch for its existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
We are optimists and realists, we take pride in our supersedure over pre-natal blemishes …. From Wordnik.com. [Kerfuffle Over Slave Auction Reenactment at cvillenews.com] Reference
This was hard mind-work for me, but I mastered the situation and escaped supersedure and punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson] Reference
Absconding swarm, American foulbrood, Braula coeca, buff comb, Demaree ('the method of swarm control that separates the queen from most of the brood within the same hive'), supersedure ('a natural replacement of an established queen by a daughter in the same hive')—it's all here. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BEEKEEPING TERMS.] Reference
I have said that this doctrine of supersedure is new. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
But I appeal to them not to vote for this supersedure clause. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
Was there any provision in it which even squinted toward this notion of repeal by supersedure?. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
These are ever subject to change and supersedure according to exigencies of time, place and condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Promulgation of Universal Peace] Reference
It works for the true fellowship and unification of all mankind for it never changes and is not subject to supersedure. From Wordnik.com. [Foundations of World Unity] Reference
It works for the true fellowship and unification of all mankind, for it never changes and is not subject to supersedure. From Wordnik.com. [The Promulgation of Universal Peace] Reference
President was the man for the crisis, while some, even of his supporters, clamored for his supersedure by the appointment of a dictator. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
I think, sir, that all this shows pretty clearly that up to the very close of the last session of Congress nobody had ever thought of a repeal by supersedure. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
Illinois, as chairman of the committee, and I show, beyond all controversy, that that report gave no countenance whatever to the doctrine of repeal by supersedure. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
It was on the morning of the 4th of March, just before the close of the last session, when that Nebraska bill, reported by the Senator from Illinois, which proposed no repeal, and suggested no supersedure, was under discussion. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
Did he, in the report made by him as the chairman of the Committee of Thirteen, or in any speech in support of the compromise acts, or in any conversation in the committee, or out of the committee, ever even hint at this doctrine of supersedure?. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
Some well-intentioned men in this State, deriving their notions from the language and forms which obtain in our courts, have been induced to consider it as an implied supersedure of the trial by jury, in favor of the civil-law mode of trial, which prevails in our courts of admiralty, probate, and chancery. From Wordnik.com. [The Federalist Papers] Reference
He who believes that a universal devotion to politics would most speedily achieve the end of politics, namely, the supersedure of its whole machinery by the arrival at a self - rectifying observance of the conditions of private and public welfare -- must advocate the bestowment of legislative and other public functions on women. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendships of Women] Reference
Meanwhile there had been increasing dissatisfaction in Congress and among the people with the supersedure of General Grant, and to relieve the situation General Halleck was called to Washington in the early part of July to take command of the army which had been relinquished by McClellan in March, when he set forth upon the Peninsular campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
13. supersedure. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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