superordination

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English

Etymology

super- +‎ ordination: compare Latin superordinatio.

Noun

superordination (countable and uncountable, plural superordinations)

  1. The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, , new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: for Thomas Tegg and Son, , published 1837, →OCLC:
      that the infant church might not be orphan an hour , lest satan should assault the breach of such a vacancy , to the disadvantage of religion . Such a super-ordination in such cases was canonicalñ it being a tradition
      The spelling has been modernized.
  2. (logic) The relation of a universal proposition to a particular proposition in the same terms.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “superordination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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