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superˈexcellent, a. (n.)
[ad. late L. superexcellent-, -ens: see super-1 9 a and excellent.]
That superexcels; excellent in a high degree; very or supremely excellent.
1561Preston K. Cambyses 948 A banquett royall and superexcellent. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. ii. i. 452 Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent Tobacco. 1660R. Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 108 The King, to whose super-excellent power and facultie God himself gives witnesse to. 1712Steele Spect. No. 540 ⁋6 In Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, and Justice super-excellent. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 490 The system of under or deep-draining, being the deepest method of any, is super-excellent. 1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne I. i. 20 A very true woman and no super-excellent heroine.
b. n. A superexcellent person or thing. nonce-use.
1816Moore Let. to Power 24 Sept., Two or three of the Irish [songs] equal to any I have done;..but our plan is to go on till we can select twelve super-excellents.
Hence superˈexcellently adv.
1683E. Hooker Pref. Pordage's Mystic Div. 103 That..Divinest Mysterie of Love, sciz God made Flesh: which gave (as one superexcellently) the Angels new Anthems. a1687Cotton New-Year 38 And then the next in reason shou'd Be superexcellently good. 1906Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 8/1 The atmosphere of the highly cultured..home..is superexcellently achieved. |