surmounted

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Verb[edit]

surmounted

  1. simple past and past participle of surmount

Adjective[edit]

surmounted (not comparable)

  1. (architecture) Of an arch or dome: rising higher than a semicircle.
  2. (heraldry) Overlaid; denoting a figure when another is laid over it.
    • 1846, William Newton, Display of Heraldry, page 75:
      Argent, a fess vert, surmounted by a saltier gules, by the name of Parveis.