superintendent registrar

An English officer who superintends the registers of births, deaths, and marriages. There is one in every poor-law union. He is responsible to the Registrar-General. *sū-për-in-tender, s. [Eng. superintend ; -er.] One who superintends or who exercises superintendence; a superintendent. *sū-per-in-věs'-ti-ture, s. [Pref. super-, and Eng . investiture (q. v.).] An upper vest or garment. "The body clothed upon with a super investiture of the house from heaven." -Bp. Horne : Discourse 17. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, superior sü-për-1-õr. *su-per-i-our, *su-per-y-our, a. . [Fr. supérieur , from Lat. superiorem , acc us. of superior higher, compar. of super us =high, from super =above; Sp. & Port.superior ; Ital.super i ore.] A. As adjective : I. Ordinary Language: 1. More elevated in position or situation; higher, upper. "Its superior part, which in the first prism suffered the greater refraction." -Newton: Opticks. 2. Higher in rank or office; more exalted in position or dignity. "With due respect my body I incl in'd, As to some being of superior kind." Dryden: Flower and Leaf, 468. 3. Higher in excellence; surpa ing others in greatne , goodne , value, extent, or other similar quality. "In force of mind and extent of knowledge he was superior to them all."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii. 4. Being beyond the power or influence of; too great, firın, or strong to be liable for or affected by; above. "A great man superior to his sufferings."- Add is on : Spectator . II. Technically: 1. Botany: (1) ( Of a calyx or corolla ): Situated apparently above the ovary. Really, however, they rise from beneath it, but have contracted adhesion to its sides. (2) ( Of an ovary ): Free from the calyx and corolla, so that they rise from beneath it. 2. Logic : Greater in extension or comprehension; more comprehensive; wider. "The same cla which is a genus with reference to the subcla es or species included in it, may be itself a species with reference to a more comprehensive, or, as it is often called, a superior , genus. Man is a species with refer. ence to animal, but a genus with reference to the species mathematician."-J. S. Mill : System of Logic. IMG:content-0588.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0589.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The superlative degree of an adjective or ad. verb; in English it is formed by the termination -est , as high, highest; or by prefixing most , as beaut i. ful, most beautiful. 2. A word in the superlative degree. "To claw the back of him that beastly lives, And pranck base men in proud superlatives ." Bishop Hall : Satires . (Prol.) sū-per-la-tive-lý, adv. (English superlative; -ly .] 1. In a superlative manner; in a manner expre ive of the highest degree. "I shall not speak superlatively of them; but that I may truly say, they are second to none in the Christian world."- Bacon. 2. In the highest or utmost degree. "We... look down with contempt upon these concerns of ours as superlatively mean and little."- Knox : Liberal Education , § 36. sū-per-la-tive-ne , subst . [Eng. superlative ; -ne . The quality or state of being superlative or in the highest degree. *sū-per-lû-crate, v . t . [Lat. super =above, and lucrum=gain.) To gain in addition; to earn over and above. Astron.: The conjunction (q. v.) of a heavenly body when it is on the side of the sun most distant and that it is po ible they might superlucrate twenty- from the earth.