1615 H. Ainsworth in J. Ainsworth Trying out of Truth 77 If Peter was but subordinate (as you say) to Christ; your Popes (I trow) be now superordinate.

1676 R. Baxter Judgm. Non-conformists 110 Humane Churches be not made equal and co-ordinate to the Divine, much less superior, and superordinate.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ix. 719 Whatsoever patronage is in the hands of the subordinate and obeying body, in reality belongs to the superordinate and commanding.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. i. v. 59 The judge of appeal, superordinate to the judge first spoken of.

1954 Theology 58 326 It would not necessarily be apparent which was the subordinate and which the superordinate sex.

1974 W. Rees-Mogg Reigning Error i. 21 Only those who appreciate my superordinate quality are fit to live in our new world of Nazism/Fascism/Soviet Communism.

2005 J. M. Croteau & M. G. Constantine in J. M. Croteau et al. Deconstructing Heterosexism 179 I cannot think that my race is always superordinate to my sexual orientation in the sense of psychological salience.

1816 J. Bentham Extract Constit. Code: Official Aptitude Maximized 14 Service rendered by a subordinate, the superordinate not having contributed any thing to the performance of it.

1854 H. Hughes Treat. Sociol. v. ii. 210 In the military and maritime orders, the orderers or superordinates are officers.

1916 Agronomy Jrnl. 8 340 Will a young man develop most rapidly by publishing independently or jointly with his superordinates?

1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 143 Afrikaaners still feel threatened by English,..and use it to superordinates or equals rather than to subordinates or intimates.

2008 C. Francis & D. R. Heise in J. Clay-Warner & D. T. Robinson Social Struct. & Emotion vii. 126 In Study 1 we treated the actor who instigated emotion as a superordinate, a peer, or a subordinate.

1817 J. Bentham Chrestomathia Pt. II 225 The relation which, by the lesser aggregate designated by the name attached to any such subordinate trunk, is borne to the greater aggregate designated by the name attached to its immediate superordinate, is the same as that which..a species bears to its next immediate genus.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xi. 188 One concept is subordinate to another, (which may be called the Superordinate), when the former is included within, or makes a part of, the sphere or extension of the latter.

1867 L. H. Atwater Man. Elem. Logic ii. 69 The Genus divided as being the higher, is sometimes called the Super-ordinate.

1934 R. C. Priebsch & W. E. Collinson German Lang. vi. 318 Extensions of the infinitives and participles..sometimes follow their superordinates.

1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 86 302 The use of a superordinate..functionally eliminated one element from the set.

2004 J. Field Psycholinguistics 75 Connections link a particular concept to its characteristics (tomato is linked to round)..as well as to associated concepts including co-hyponyms and superordinates (lettuce and salad).

1932 E. C. Tolman Purposive Behavior in Animals & Men viii. 128 We turn now..to an experiment which indicates the ability of the rat to respond to a hierarchy of subordinate and superordinate goals.

1954 M. Sherif in Amer. Sociol. Rev. 19 771/2 Superordinate goals are introduced with the aim of studying the reduction of intergroup tension to derive realistic leads for the integration of hostile groups.

1997 N. L. Stein & E. R. Albro in M. Bamberg Narr. Devel. i. 32 Reinstating a goal after success can also occur, especially when narrators set up a situation where a superordinate goal is continually reinstated in conjunction with the achievement of subgoals.

2008 Science 30 May 1133 There is no more vivid example than the recognition by the United States and the Soviet Union that avoiding nuclear war was a superordinate goal that could only be achieved by cooperation.

1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal ii. viii. 89 The framing of Gospel-motives so, as they clash not with, but are superordinated to..those of the Law..speaks the Compilers to have been men of well composed Minds.

1832 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 259 Reason as contrasted with Understanding, and superordinated to it.

1853 W. Hamilton Lect. Logic App. ii. 443 Two notions are superordinated to a third.

1906 H. W. Armit tr. A. Forel Hypnotism ii. 41 Groups of elements of the various areas of the cerebral cortex..form a group complex of fibres..superordinated to the other centres.

1971 E. van den Haag in J. R. Pennock & J. W. Chapman Privacy & Personality viii. 153 Courts have always had to decide when to superordinate the claims of law enforcement to those of privacy.

2004 D. Marzona Minimal Art 21/1 The conception of a work is superordinated to its execution.