The purveyors of the Amusement have superadded to the Spectacle a third dimension, the main Effect of which is to expand the already extensive Belly and Buttocks of Mr. Jack Black, a rotund Clown charged with the task of impersonating Lemuel Gulliver.
We are not, indeed, disposed to deny that a crime, to the conviction and punishment of which congress has superadded a disqualification to hold office, is thereby made infamous.
As a further check, a council of revision including the great ministerial officers might be superadded.
Personalists are quick to assert that personality is not superadded to humanity, but a quality of every human being.
However, Locke allows, it is possible that God has superadded the power of thought directly to matter.
This substantial bond (superadded by God) could serve as a kind of metaphysical glue uniting the dominant monad and the subordinate monads of an organic body.
It works by invoking another principle, superadded to the operations of sympathy: "that objects appear greater or less by a comparison with others" (T II.2.8 375).
Again, one finds a Lockean echo of this idea (which may be no accident): Locke sometimes suggests that matter itself is passive in the sense that it cannot move itself; instead, motion must be "superadded" to it by God.
(DJN I.1.2 3) Some moral entities are said to "flow naturally from things themselves, as it were, while others are superadded to physical things … by an intelligent power" (DJN I.1.3; Pufendorf 1994a, p. 100).
For Abner, everybody has a layer of pure divine existence, to which are superadded other forms and accidents; but if the body is stripped of all of these accretions it will be reduced to the original divine substance only.
According to this "non-essentialist" or "divine annexation" reading, Locke understands superadded properties as properties that God has annexed to matter by fiat, and that bear no intrinsic connection to matter's real essence.
