Surtop
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Surtop is a verb meaning (transitive, uncommon) To overtop, to be on top of.
Meaning
(transitive, uncommon) To overtop, to be on top of.
Example Sentences
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.”
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.
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.
Word Forms
- surtops
- surtopping
- surtopped
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