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superiorly, adv.|s(j)uːˈpɪərɪəlɪ|
[f. superior a. + -ly2.]
In a superior place, degree, or manner.
1. In a higher position or place; in the upper part, above; to a higher position, upwards.
1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lxxxviii. 109 Spiders are plaste a boue superiorlie, And flies beneth them plaste inferiorlie. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 46/2 The third ascendeth superiorlye, from the soule of the foote towardes the knees. 1599― tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 144/2 An externall meanes to provoack stooles for those which nether superiourlye, nor inferiourlye can vse anye Physick. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 260/1 Its belly of a reddish brown superiorly and a dirty grey beneath. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 141 In this central furrow [was] lodged..most superiorly the water-vascular canal.
2. In a higher degree, more highly, better.
1643Sir J. Spelman Case of Affairs 15 The superioritie..that is subordinately in the inferiour Courts, is but more superiourly in the House of Lords than them. 1779W. Alexander Hist. Women (1782) I. viii. 280 Where the love of the men is directed more to the sex than the individual, a woman has no motive to excite even a wish of being superiorly beautiful. 1816Bentham Chrestom. i. Wks. 1843 VIII. 16/1 The superiorly instructed boy. 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 327 Superiorly watered to almost any other district in the colony. 1830Marryat King's Own xxxi, The launch..firing round and grape..with a rapidity that almost enabled her to return gun for gun to her superiorly-armed antagonist.
3. In positive or absolute sense: In a high degree, highly; more or better than the generality; beyond the average; supereminently.
1728Morgan Algiers I. Pref. p. xiv, A Person so superiorly capable of giving it. 1755J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 314 The..dejection..that attends those who chuse mourning for the death of those whom they love superiorly. 1783H. Walpole Let. to Earl of Strafford 11 Dec., With regard to letter-writing, I am firmly persuaded that it is a province in which women will always shine superiorly. 1802E. Parsons Myst. Visit I. 98 To conceive their woes superiorly great. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 474 Evidence..of a nature so superiorly trustworthy. 1835Beckford Recoll., etc. 18 This superiorly fine and glowing morning. 1882Stevenson New Arab. Nts. II. xii. 220 A work of art superiorly composed.
4. With an air or attitude of superiority.
1844Emerson Ess., Nominalist & Realist, The audience..judge very wisely and superiorly how wrong-headed and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
So suˈperiorness, superiority.
1796F. Burney Camilla iii. vi, I don't see the great superiorness of learning, if it can't keep a man's temper out of a passion. |