Definition of "superordinate" [superordinate]

• Of higher rank, status, or value. (adjective)
• Logic Of or being the relation of a universal proposition to a particular proposition in which the terms are the same and occur in the same order. (adjective)

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• "One thing the couples in these good marriages have in common is a vision of the marriage as a "superordinate" entity -- something that is separate from and larger than its two parts."
• "As the efficacious bearer and transmitter of the Divine Spirit of Love to mankind Jesus is "superordinate" to all men, and has in the eternal decree of God a merely ideal pre-existence."
• "If G1 is superordinate to G2, then G1's differentiae will be a subset of G2's differentiae."