supremum
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of supremum
< New Latin suprēmum, noun use of neuter of Latin suprēmus supreme
Example Sentences
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Henricus Howardus Comes Northamptoniæ filius secundo genitus, hoc supremum pietatis in parentes monumentum posuit, A.D.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Cibber, Theophilus
Postquam Episcopus pervenerit ad supremum altaris gradum, diaconus a dextris cum debita reverentia et genuflexione ... accipiet de manu ipsius Episcopi stantis SS.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various
Hic cum domi suæ, à 100. viris coniuratis ob cædem à filio ipsius, ipso tamen inscio, patratam cingeretur, et inimicis domum vndique igni succendentibus, sibi videret supremum fatum instare, ait tandem.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
Each is itself an ultimate genus, a genus supremum.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
He says also expressly: Animadvertendum sane, quod cum dicitur humanum genus potest regi per unum supremum principem, non sic intelligendum est ut ab illo uno prodire possint municipia et leges municipales.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
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