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▪ I. superˈordinate, a. (n.)
[f. super- II, after subordinate.]
A. adj. Superior in rank: the opposite of subordinate, esp. in Logic and Gram. Const. to.
1620T. Scott God & King (1623) 84 You that are next the lowest, consider the like, and so successiuely as you are superordinate. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 59 The judge of appeal, superordinate to the judge first spoken of. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India v. ix. II. 719 Whatsoever patronage is in the hands of the subordinate and obeying body, in reality belongs to the superordinate and commanding. 1864Bowen Logic iv. 87 Animal is Superior or Superordinate to mammal. 1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. vi. 318 The older construction is characterized by the precedence of the superordinate infinite, e.g. lassen tragen. 1949C. E. Bazell in Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague V. 77 If..the functions of one member (e.g. the substantive) alone are similar to the functions of the whole group, this member is said to be superordinate. 1954Theology LVII. 326 It would not necessarily be apparent which was the subordinate and which the superordinate sex. 1970T. Lupton Managem. & Social Sci. (ed. 2) iii. 80 The superordinate manager must work hard to create conditions for the subordinate such that the latter will feel that he is being supported and encouraged. 1974W. Rees-Mogg Reigning Error i. 21 Only those who appreciate my superordinate quality are fit to live in our new world of Nazism/Fascism/Soviet Communism. 1979Trans. Philol. Soc. 37 In Italian promotion of the subordinate si into the superordinate clause..results in the unacceptable sequence si si.
B. n. One who is superior in rank; a superior; that which is of a superior order or category.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 556 note, This unlearned judge copying the pattern set him by his learned superordinates. 1816–30― Offic. Apt. Maximized, Extract Const. Code (1830) 14 Service rendered by a subordinate, the superordinate not having contributed any thing to the performance of it. 1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. vi. 318 Extensions of the infinitives and participles..sometimes follow their superordinates. 1957R. W. Brown in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 505/1 The concrete noun..is likely to be more picturable than its superordinate. 1969Greenfield & Bruner in J. S. Bruner Beyond Information Given (1974) xxi. 388 An itemized superordinate in labeling form. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVI. 302 The use of a superordinate..functionally eliminated one element from the set.
▪ II. supeˈrordinate, v. rare.
[f. as prec.]
trans. To place in a superior order or rank. Const. to.
1853Sir W. Hamilton Logic App. ii. 443 Two notions are superordinated to a third. |