superordinary (super ordinar i)

than the ordinary or common; excellent. superordinate (su-per-or'di-nat), a. Related as a universal proposition to a particular one in the same terms. One group is superordinate to another when it is regarded as the higher under which the other takes its place as lower. W. L. Davidson, Mind, XIL. 234. [ superordination (sū-per-ôr-di-nā'shon), m. LL.superordinatio ( n- ), After the death of Augustine, Laurentius, a Roman, succeeded him; whom Augustine, in his lifetime, not only designed for, but "ordained in that place." Such a super - ordination in such cases was canonical, it being a tradition that St. Peter in like manner consecrated Clement his succe or in the Church of Rome. Fuller, Church Hist., II. ii. 27. 2. In logic, the relation of a universal proposition to a particular proposition in the same terms. superorganic (sū"per-or-gan'ik), a. 1. Being above or beyond organization; not dependent upon organization: noting psychical or spiritual things considered apart from the organisms by or through which they are manifested: as, "the interdependence of organic and super or ganic life," G. H. Lewes.-2. Social, with the implication that society is something like a physiological organism, but of a higher mode of coördination.