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Superexcrescence, -ens, -sence, n. Also: (supercrescence). [Excrescence n.] Increase in profit or value (of something); surplus profit.(a) 1479 Acta Aud. 90/1.
Sa lang as he … couth get the malis & proffit of the said ten pundisworth of … the said landis that he suld mak him be … pait ȝerly of the superexcrescence, mare than the said ten pundisworth 1492 Acta Conc. I 247/2.
x markis ȝerely … aucht be hir to the said James of the super excrescence and avale that the thrid parte of the half of the landis of Medop ar better than the thrid parte of the half of the landis of Maneristoun 1495 Acta Conc. I 430/1.
Withhaldin … of … xiiij bollis of quhete sawin with the superexcrescence estymeit to xlij bollis price of the boll xviij s. 1496 Acta Conc. II 35. 1499 Reg. Privy S. I 51/1.
To ansuer to the king of the superexcrescence of the proffitis 1500 Acta Conc. II 430.
[The sum of 100 merks] for the superexcresence of the froitis of the parsonage of the kirk of Lenze be the space of five yeris 1501 Acta Conc. III 90.
[Action against the sheriff for wrongful detention of] the superexcrescence and the avale of nyne score of ald schepe in sa fer as thai extendit mare than the soum of xxv merkis 1530 Yester Wr. 142.
The profits amounting to 20 bolls of aitis sawing of Nythisdale met estimat in superexcrescence to the thrid corn(b) 1479 Acta Conc. I 39/1.
Supercrescence

b. Surplus numbers (of something).?1594 Monro W. Isles in Orig. Par. II i 389.
The countrey is so fertill of gerssing that the superexcrescens of the said ky and schiepe [etc.]

c. ? Interest. 1581 Edinb. Test. IX 321.
I leve to Jonet Haldane my dochter … xx merkis to be gevin hir quhen scho is of the age of xviij ȝeris and to be sustenit in meit & claith vpoun the superexcresence of the haill till scho be xviij ȝeris auld