All sorts of explanations were suggested, not one of them in the least satisfactory, but serving to keep the curiosity of inquirers active until they were superseded by a new theory.
The best of them were something of the following pattern, which is too often superseded of late by a more pretentious, but infinitely less pleasing kind of rustic architecture.
Bodily exercise was not, however, entirely superseded by spiritual exercises, and a rudimentary form of base-ball and the heroic sport of football were followed with some spirit.
This "odious relic of an effete civilization," as they called it, has long been superseded by oblong hollow receptacles, one of which is allotted to each twelve persons.
So of the remedies which have gone out of fashion and beensuperseded by others.
Leaden balls have now almost superseded those of stone.
Neither does this classification imply that in the Bronze Age of any country stone implements had entirely ceased to be in use, nor even that in the Iron Age both bronze and stone had been completely superseded for all cutting purposes.
It may belong to the transitional period, when bronze was coming into use, but was still too scarce to have superseded flint.
At how early a period the introduction of the spinning-wheel superseded to some extent the use of the distaff and spindle, it is difficult to say.
But it could not be him, for he had been superseded by General Hardin; and General McDowell McCook ranked both of them; and, as I have before informed you, was placed in command and sent out to see to General Early.
However short-lived some particular drill or exercise may be, however soon it is superseded by another, as long as it lasts the strictest conformity to it is rigorously enforced.
Each circuit, therefore, consisted of only a single wire; the wire that had been previously used to complete the circuit being superseded by burying in the earth, at each terminus, a small copper plate.
At that time, however, the discovery of the magnetic properties of the electric current, and other improvements in the means of communicating, superseded for some years the use of signals made by electro-chemical decomposition.
Artaxerxes causes Tissaphernes to be put to death and superseded by Tithraustes.
His ill-success and recall—he is supersededby Derkyllidas.
Everywhere the new Lysandrian dekarchy superseded the previous governments, whether oligarchical or democratical.
Its population was now something over fifteen thousand, the streets were well paved and brilliantly lighted, and long blocks of tall, substantial buildings had superseded the unsightly shacks of the days of the Civil War.
In modern warfare the telephone has probably superseded the Signal Service, but the latter certainly played an important part in our Civil War.
The shout of victory has been superseded by the expulsion of the enemy over whom it could have been achieved.
The first met a soldier’s death at Corunna, and the latter was superseded by an incapable commander.
Even in neat Philadelphia, where there is so much of brick sidewalk and of marble doorstep to be cleaned, the use of hose and broom has to a great extent superseded the scrubbing-brush oiled with elbow-grease.
Their original uses have been superseded by the world's advance; but time and change add greatly to their interest.
Nor did it greatly tend to soothe his wounded feelings to reflect that the person by whom he had been superseded would be certain before long to be hurled from his proud eminence and another put in his place.
In the place of an exclusive sense of caste came equality and brotherly love; tolerance and gentleness in the place of ceremonial; expiations and penances were superseded by a rational morality, and beneficial sympathy with all creatures.
While in this manner one constructive system superseded the other, the formal side of knowledge did not remain without a keen and penetrating examination.
She pointed out what had been forgotten, remedied the inconvenience of several arrangements, or superseded them with better, doing it all with the utmost cheerful simplicity.
Clearly this does not point to the recent but to the remote development of the higher ideas, now superseded by spirit-worship.
Seeming to cease to be mysterious, hypnotism became all but respectable, and was being used in surgical operations, till it was superseded by chloroform.
When slot entirely superseded the word trace amongst sportsmen it is difficult to determine.
Gradually the word dog superseded the word hound, and the latter was only retained to designate a "scenting" dog.
Philosophy is too much a study of the details of superseded systems; it is too little the study of the miraculous living moment in which the past melts into the present and the future finds creation.
They indicate that the original Celtic would have been superseded by the Latin of the Conquerors, and consequently that our language, in its later stages, would have been neither British nor Gaelic, but Roman.
The expression of Time and Place by independent words superseded the expression by Inflections.
In Britain, the native idiom was nowhere superseded by the Roman, though the island was held in subjection upwards of three centuries.
It may be superseded by statute, but unlesssuperseded it controls.
A keyed stringed instrument, nowsuperseded by the pianoforte.
From a local hero he grew into national fame, and superseded Arthur in popular regard.
But this ingenious emendation is now superseded by the proper readings of the old song itself, which is here printed from what appears the most ancient of Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superseded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
