Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to household furniture; hence, ornamental.
- noun An article of household furniture; hence, an ornament.
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At times the river would rise in one of its periodical furies, and sweep away a pier or two with the superincumbent houses; at others the wooden supporters of the structure would catch fire by some untoward event, and the inhabitants had the choice of being fried or drowned, along with their penates and their supellectile property.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various
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Typis exscriptorum ex Libraria quadam supellectile, Norimbergæ collecta et observata, Millenarius
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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RAWLINSONUS; cujus peritiam in supellectile libraria, animique magnitudinem, nemo fere hominum eruditorum unquam attigit, quod tamen vix agnoscet seculum ingratum.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Imo ne pugnare quidem, sed auro et cuncta supellectile vitam redimere. "
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
super-kawy commented on the word supellectile
Of the nature of or relating to furniture.
May 7, 2009
qms commented on the word supellectile
A termagant's small supellectiles
Should mainly be baskets and textiles.
It's best to take care
To keep the house bare
Of heavy potential projectiles.
September 24, 2015