Adjective

(en adjective)

Higher in quality.

Higher in rank.

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More comprehensive, as a term in classification.

A genus is superior to a species.

Located above.

the superior''' jaw; the '''superior part of an image

# (botany) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.

# (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.

# (botany) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; said of the radicle.

# (typography) Printed in superscript.

a superior figure or letter

Greater or better than average; extraordinary.

Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to .

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There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(lb) Suitable.

#Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.

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#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

#*:The proper study of mankind is man.

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#Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.

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(lb) Possessed, related.

#(lb) Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper words are usually written with an initial capital letter.

#Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.

#*, II.1.3:

#*:They have a proper saint almost for every peculiar infirmity: for poison, gouts, agues.

#*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

#*:those high and peculiar attributeswhich constitute our proper humanity

#(lb) Belonging to oneself or itself; own.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:my proper son

#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

#*:Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, / Betwixt true valour and an empty boast.

#*, II.4.1.ii:

#*:every country, and more than that, every private place, hath his proper remedies growing in it, particular almost to the domineering and most frequent maladies of it.

#*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), (A History of Western Philosophy) , I.20:

#*:Each animal has its proper' pleasure, and the ' proper pleasure of man is connected with reason.

#(lb) Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.

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(lb) Accurate, strictly applied.

#Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.)

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#*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) VII:

#*:The same tyme was Moses borne, and was a propper childe in the sight of God, which was norisshed up in his fathers housse thre monethes.

#In the very strictest sense of the word (now often as postmodifier).

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#*:Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper .

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