superstruct

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUPERSTRUCT', verb transitive [Latin superstruo; super and struo, to lay.] To build upon; to erect. This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocence and then virtue. [Little used.]
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