superinstitutev.
/ˌsuːp(ə)rˈɪnstᵻtjuːt/, /ˌsuːp(ə)rˈɪnstᵻtʃuːt/, /ˌsjuːp(ə)rˈɪnstᵻtjuːt/, /ˌsjuːp(ə)rˈɪnstᵻtʃuːt/, U.S. /ˌsupərˈɪnstəˌt(j)ut/ Christian Church. Now historical.
transitive. To institute (a person) to a benefice over the head of another; to appoint by (a) superinstitution. Also figurative.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > [verb (transitive)] > institute to benefice
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1644 T. Edwards Antapologia 92 To our Ministery of the Parochiall Assemblies..you have superinstituted and superinducted another Ministery.
1647 J. Cleveland Char. London-diurnall 18 His is the Donative, and mine the Cure, Then say, my Muse,..Who 'tis that Fame doth superinstitute.
1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times ii. viii. 69 Heaven will not super-institute a miracle, where ordinary meanes were formerly in peaceable possession.
1742 Jura Ecclesiastica II. 384 Before B was instituted and inducted, and..after he A was superinstituted and inducted, and is to be punished, as an Intruder.
1864 Cal. State Papers, Domest. 319 Eales submitted himself to the censure of the court for procuring himself to be super-instituted into the rectory of Lower Isham in co. Northampton [in 1634].
1975 M. H. Curtis in C. R. Cole & M. E. Moody Dissenting Trad. i. 89 Thomas Bold was superinstituted to Winwick parish by the Earl of Worcester.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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