suppedaneous

English

Etymology

From sub- + Latin pes, pedis (“a foot”). Compare Latin suppedaneum (“a footstool”).

Adjective

suppedaneous (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Beneath the feet.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     pendulosity , they having no support or suppedaneous stability

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suppedaneous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)