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The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.

Serving no purpose; superfluous; needless. [Obs.] Howell.

omething else; to be added; to take place; to happen. Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unless impressed by divine power. Bentley. A tyrany immediately supervened. Burke.

s something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards. That branch of belief was in him supervenient to Christian practice. Hammond. Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes. Z. Swift.

The act of supervening. Bp. Hall.

Supervision. Walpole.

To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.

The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.

Supervisory. [R.]

One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.

Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.

To survive; to outlive. [Obs.]

Having a plainted and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning-glory.

Not capable of being passed over; insuperable; insurmountable.

The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.

Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties. And middle natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass the insuperable line Pope. The difficulty is enhanced, or is . . . insuperable. I. Taylor.

Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.

The superior or head of an abbey.

ominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.