Superordination

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. countable, uncountable

    "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"

  2. 2
    the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class wordnet
  3. 3
    The relation of a universal proposition to a particular proposition in the same terms. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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hypernymyhypernymysupraordination

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"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"

Etymology

From super- + ordination: compare Latin superordinatio.

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