sentence with "supercede"

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Hello,Here is the sentence:"The future is bleak unless they (black youth) find a way to supersede their circumstances, and we as a society give them the equipment to supersede their circumstances, to make the right choices"What do they mean by saying "to supercede their circumstances"? Is it sth like to look for and find better ones?Thanking you in anticipation

Nona the brit · Accepted Answer

It seems a strange use of the word really but, yes, they mean that they need to replace their current poor circumstances with better ones.

I would think of the new circumstances superceding the old ones, not the people themselves superceding their circumstances.

Marius Hancu · Answer

I think the meaning here is override, 2b:
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Main Entry: su·per·sede

Variant(s): or su·per·cede
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -ed/-ing/-s

Etymology: Middle French superseder to refrain from, postpone, from Latin supersedre to sit above, be superior to, forbear, refrain from, from super- + sedre to sit -- more at SIT

transitive verb
1 law a : POSTPONE, DEFER b : to fail to proceed with : DISCONTINUE c obsolete : to refrain from : OMIT, FORBEAR d : to suspend the operation (of a judgment or order) by means of a http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged?book=Third&va=supersedeas
2 obsolete : to omit mention of
3 a : to make obsolete, inferior, or outmoded <the lapse of time has superseded his astronomical system -- Benjamin Farrington> b : to make void : ANNUL, OVERRIDE<established the principle that the welfare of a child superseded judgments rendered by the courts -- Current Biography> c : to make http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged?book=Third&va=superfluous or unnecessary <this brief account ... is intended to supersede the necessity of a long and minute detail -- Jane Austen>
4 : to take the place of and outmode by http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged?book=Third&va=superiority : supplant and make inferior by better or more efficiently serving a function <the automobile began to supersede the horse -- American Guide Series: Minnesota> <the canal never paid ... because railroads soon superseded it -- Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington>
5 a : to cause to be supplanted in a position or function <in course of time this organization would have to be superseded by another -- Shlomo Katz> b : to succeed to the position, office, or function of : take the place of <the department ... superseded the geologic and economic survey -- American Guide Series: North Carolina> <supersede another as chairman>
6 : to follow after in the course of time <as truth prevails over error ... goodness tends to supersede badness -- Samuel Alexander>
7 : to take precedence over <the movement for adjournment supersedes the bill under discussion>

intransitive verb : to defer action : FORBEAR<supersede to name the many other difficulties -- F.W.Newman>
synonym see REPLACE

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