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名詞

surplusage (countable and uncountable, plural surplusages)

1. (now rare) A surplus; a superabundance.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     If then thee list my offred grace to vse, / Take what thou please of all this surplusage; / If thee list not, leaue haue thou to refuse […]

   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation:

     A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.

2. (law) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and may be rejected.
3. (Can we verify this sense?) (finance) A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.
   • 1802–1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature

     one third-part of the surplusage of the estate of any person dying inteſtate, ſhall be distributed to his widow,and the reſidue amongſt his children by equal portions

参照

• “surplusage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.