Meaning of surplusage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surplus; a superabundance.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and may be rejected.
   countable, uncountable
3. A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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 […]”

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

“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 intetate, hall be distributed to his widow,and the reidue amongt his children by equal portions”

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