surmount

Etymology

From Middle English surmounten, from Old French surmonter (“to rise above, surmount”), from sur- (“above”) + monter (“to mount”).

verb

1. (transitive) To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome.
   this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 10
2. (transitive) To cap; to sit on top of.
   The ovolo surmounting the dentil course generally turns the corner by means of a carved acanthus leaf, the decorated cyma and cyma reversa being similarly treated at the corner. 2007, Robert Chitham, The Classical Orders of Architecture