superstruction

== English == === Noun === superstruction (countable and uncountable, plural superstructions) (chiefly archaic) The act of superstructing, or building upon. That which is built on some foundation; an edifice; a superstructure. 1668, John Denham, Preface to the translation of two poems, in Poems and Translations, 6th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, 1719, p. 89,[2] […] for I love not to improve the Honour of the Living, by impairing that of the Dead; and my own Profession hath taught me, not to erect new Superstructions upon an old Ruin. === References === “superstruction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.