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Superior   /supˈɪriər/   Listen
adjective
Superior  adj.  
1.
More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.
2.
Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.
3.
Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery.
4.
Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to. "There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings."
5.
More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species.
6.
(Bot.)
(a)
Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.
(b)
Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
(c)
Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; said of the radicle.
Superior conjunction, Superior planets, etc. See Conjunction, Planet, etc.
Superior figure, Superior letter (Print.), a figure or letter printed above the line, as a reference to a note or an index of a power, etc; as, in x^(2) + y^(n), 2 is a superior figure, n a superior letter. Cf. Inferior figure, under Inferior.


noun
Superior  n.  
1.
One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English.
2.
(Eccl.) The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.





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"Superior" Quotes from Famous Books



... then the bands of death were burst, Shattered the sway of hell accurst: Then did the Day's superior might Swiftly dispel ...
— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
... face with two trembling hands. The other woman, with her superior intellect, had discovered the secret she had feebly tried to guard. There was a pause and a dead silence. That silence told all that was necessary to Charlotte Harman. After a time she said gently, but all the fibre and ...
— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade
... the cloak were almost understandable to Mrs. Travers in the perfection of their melancholy contempt, and gave Lingard a further insight into the character of the ally secured to him by the diplomacy of Belarab. He was only half reassured by this assumption of superior detachment. He trusted to the man's self-interest more; for Daman no doubt looked to the reconquered kingdom for the reward of dignity and ease. His father and grandfather (the men of whom Jorgenson had written as having been hanged for an example twelve years ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad
... this hypothesis introduces real formal unity without prejudicing mechanical plurality. Each of the mind-units in my body is itself and substantially distinct. But since each, in its own way and according to its own position, represents the superior and more developed mind which I call 'me', they will order themselves according to a common form. The order is real, not accidental: it is like the order of troops on a parade-ground. Each man is a distinct ...
— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz
... be settled one way or another," said the jailer, with a superior's self-assured witticism. "Now, then, ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy


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