surmounted

English

Verb

surmounted

1. simple past and past participle of surmount

Adjective

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.