But the few species now living have thus a vast surplusageof possible ancestors.
For of every of these three by God's ordinance, We have sufficiently unto our sustenance, And with the surplusage of one of these three things We might rule and govern all Christian kings.
Occasionally, under the urge and surplusage of his comic force, he went too far and made a Quilp: but the vast majority even of his drolls are as credible as they are dear.
Part of the difficulty arises fromsurplusage of imagination.
The only surplusage was found in the products of the sea.
The result was that the area of tillage only slowly expanded as the population grew denser, and the surplusage of grain for export was small during the first two centuries.
Another point ofsurplusage lieth not so much in superfluitie of your words, as of your trauaile to describe the matter which yee take in hand, and that ye ouer-labour your selfe in your businesse.
Then also when he saith [Ver approcht, and frosty winter fled] though it were a surplusage (because one season must needes geue place to the other) yet doeth it well inough passe without blame in the maker.
Why should we have any now about the surplusage of men?
Men had no tremors about the large surplusage of women as long as they were without votes.
The parish Church answereth in bignesse, the large proportion of the parish, & the surplusage of the Priory; a great part of whose chauncell anno 1592.
Touching the decayed Inland townes, they are counteruayled with a surplusage of increase of those on the coast, and the desolate walks in the Mores, haue begotten a seuen-fold race of cotages neere the sea side.
Thus the Apocrypha Proper constitutes the surplusage of the Vulgate or Bible of the Roman Church over the Hebrew Old Testament.
Cease to come to these annual orgies in this hollow modern mockery--the surplusageof raiment.
It reduces the fonetics to the last gasp--it squeezes the surplusage out of every word--there's no spelling that can begin with it on this planet outside of the White House.
It was for the very purpose of escaping redundancy and getting rid of surplusage that the Anglican Reformers condensed Missal, Breviary, and Rituale into the one small and handy volume known as the First Prayer Book of Edward VI.
Law) Defn: Surplusageinserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.
A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
The small space forbids mere surplusage of description, and the plot--as all plots should do, but, alas!
Only if all this be so, to a quite unpicturable extent, can even the most elementary Christianity be more than an amiable intruder, or a morbid surplusage in the world.
At his riper age our author promises his boy the surplusageof the treatise (st.
Independently of the fact that surplusage may be required to render the sign specific, action is free (its variation is under control) in the degree in which alternatives are present.
But, in the second place, since it is never wholly so limited, since there is always a surplusage of perceived object, the fact stated in the objection is admitted.
In the third place, surplusage is necessary for the operation of the signifying function.
But it is precisely this surplusage which has not cognitive status.
Well, it is just like I said, it is surplusage to begin with.
Here he says that it is not only illogical, but immoral to "carry our assent above the evidence that a proposition is true," to have "a surplusage of assurance beyond the degrees of that evidence.
