superiorlyadv.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxxviii. 109 Spiders are plaste a boue superiorlie, And flies beneth them plaste inferiorlie.

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 144/2 An externall meanes to provoack stooles for those which nether superiourlye, nor inferiourlye can vse anye Physick.

1766 S. Ryley tr. J. Astruc Elements Midwifry 3 The os sacrum is articulated with four other bones, superiorly with the last vertebra of the loins.

1797 W. Bay Inaug. Diss. Dysentery i. 26 It [sc. the gall bladder] is of a pyriform shape; its neck, or small extremity, being situated superiorly; its fundus, or large extremity, inferiorly.

1836 Penny Cycl. V. 260/1 Its belly of a reddish brown superiorly and a dirty grey beneath.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 141 In this central furrow [was] lodged..most superiorly the water-vascular canal.

1954 W. H. Hollinshead Anat. Surgeons I. viii. 405/2 The..hypopharynx extends from just above the level of the hyoid bone superiorly to the cricoid cartilage inferiorly.

1968 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 116 706/1 Axillary nodes and fat are avoided by dissecting directly to the rib and intercostal level, then moving superiorly in this plane until the first rib is reached.

2002 S. D. Waldman Atlas Common Pain Syndromes lxiii. 254/2 The suprapatellar bursa extends superiorly from beneath the patella.

a1643 J. Spelman Case of Affaires (1644) 15 The superioritie..that is subordinately in the inferiour Courts, is but more superiourly in the House of Lords than them.

1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World xi. 411 Sensible Objects Moving without, or Humors within, may Spiritualy Move Sensation by Tempting and Solliciting the Sensitive Spirit, humbly and Inferiorly, as that doth Move them by Commanding and Guiding them, Superiorly.

1727 R. Roach Great Crisis v. 177 His Soul is Inferiorly the Origin of the Animal Soul in all Creatures inform'd therewith; and superiorly of the Astral, or merely Rational Soul.

1768 London Mag. May 260/2 In a word, Cobham is the range of beauty; but Persfield, superiorly sublime.

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxxiv. 339 Superiorly watered to almost any other district in the colony.

1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. xi. 146 The launch..firing round and grape..with a rapidity that almost enabled her to return gun for gun to her superiorly armed antagonist.

1901 M. Cunliffe-Owen Tribulations of Princess viii. 136 It never occurred to me that this was a case of mistaken identity, that the ‘superiorly informed’ journalist meant Alban's brother.

1994 S. Campbell Exotic Weapons of Ninja (1999) xii. 123 Unfurling the connector..provided the ninja with many devious alternatives to deal with an equally or superiorly armed opponent.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. xiv A Person so superiorly capable of giving it.

1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 314 The..dejection..that attends those who chuse mourning for the death of those whom they love superiorly.

1783 H. Walpole Let. 11 Dec. (1840) VI. 211 With regard to letter-writing, I am firmly persuaded that it is a province in which women will always shine superiorly.

1802 E. Parsons Myst. Visit I. 98 To conceive their woes superiorly great.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. vi. i. 474 Evidence..of a nature so superiorly trustworthy.

1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 220 A work of art superiorly composed.

1916 C. Dawson Slaves of Freedom xiii. 312 In joining the ranks of the superiorly pure, he was pledged to see purity everywhere.

1948 Bull. Atomic Scientists July 217/3 Equipping ourselves superiorly to show the world the leadership which can direct atomic power toward the constructive uses that lie somewhere ahead.

1997 Observer (Nexis) 29 June 24 The superiorly talented John Cooper Clarke was once a pretty big postmodern noise in the poetry world.

1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. viii. 246 The audience..judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.

1863 M. I. Brotherton Respectable Sinners I. xiv. 220 ‘Mr. Nettlefold is not a man of Family, I rather think,’ remarked Hartley of Hartley Hall, superiorly.

1890 P. Gerome Shadow of Millionaire ix. 114 Julian smiled superiorly. ‘Not such a great matter’.

1917 Cent. Mag. Nov. 28/1 Regarding my fellow workers somewhat superiorly because they were not, as I was, taking the sojourn in the shop as a temporary imprisonment.

1941 J. Marshall Freedom to be Free v. 124 Young people can be..gravely set back..by being told severely and superiorly, ‘You must’.

1996 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 31 Mar. 22 Naturally, I sneered superiorly at this nation of neurotic basket-cases.