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单词 superior general
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superior general
a. Christian Church. The head of a convent, monastery, or similar religious community, congregation, or institution. Also: the overall head of a religious order (in full superior general; less commonly general superior), or a branch within it. superior generalship: the office or role of a superior general.
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1496 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) sig. Cvi But & he be inobedyent vnto his superior thenne he is no monke but a deuyll.
1582 W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. d3 So making his choise of the societie of the name of Jesvs, he went to Rome, where by the superior of that order he was admitted.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xvii. 102 b A generall chapter or assembly, in which their Priour or Superiour is president.
1621 Eng. Protestants Plea for Eng. Preists & Papists 61 The supposed guiltines of M. Garnet, superior of the Iesuits here at that time.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 213 A Benedictine Monke, and Superior of his Order for the English Colledg of Doway.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Minister, among the Jesuits, is the second Superior..of each house.
1775 in C. Butler Hist. Mem. Eng. Catholics (1821) IV. lxxv. §9. 353 The society of Jesus, of which I was superior-general.
1822 J. Lanigan Eccl. Hist. Irel. III. 60 The monastery of Hy, whose abbot was the general superior of the whole Columbian order.
1844 A. P. de Lisle in E. S. Purcell Life & Lett. A. P. de Lisle (1900) I. vii. 118 After dinner the Superior of the Passionist Monks called upon us.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 709/1 The founder in 1115 entrusted the superior-generalship of the whole institute to the abbess of the nuns.
1912 Catholic Encycl. XIII. 284/2 After holding the office of Superior General of the Xaverians for twenty-seven years.
2003 Church Times 7 Feb. 25/5 She was on the compound when dacoits broke in and murdered the Superior, Fr Macbeth.
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