surtopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

surtop (三人称単数 現在形 surtops, 現在分詞 surtopping, 過去形および過去分詞形 surtopped)

1. (transitive, uncommon) To overtop, to be on top of.
   • 1619, John Favour, Antiquitie Triumphing Over Noveltie […]‎^[1], page 389:

     In so much that at Rome Liberius, at Hierusalem Cyrillus, at Alexandria George, did filchingly and shamefully gouerne all Churches with hereticall dissembling, and so vehemently persecuted the Catholickes, that this persecution seemed to surtop all passed persecutions of former tyrants.

   • 1888, California Three Hundred and Fifty Years Ago […], page 238:

     At the head of the principal division, and the one that was to be in the lead, was the formidable king himself, whose giant frame, surtopped with the tallest of plumes, was the most conspicuous figure in the whole army.

   • 1927, Your Health: A National Health Magazine‎^[2], volume 8, page 713:

     Today if we should see a physician on the highway a-la-Prince Albert, surtopped by a plug hat, we should almost immediately regard him as a “quack.”