v. Now rare or Obs. [SUPER- 13.] trans. To institute (a person) to a benefice over the head of another. Also fig.
1647. Cleveland, Hermaphrodite, 18. His is the Donative, and mine the Cure, Then say, my Muse,… Who ’tis that Fame doth superinstitute.
1647. Fuller, Good Th. in Worse T. (1841), 101. Heaven will not superinstitute a miracle, where ordinary means were formerly in peaceable possession.
So Superinstitution, institution of a person to a benefice to which another is already instituted; also transf.
1643. Prynne, Sov. Power Parl., II. 73. That … divers incumbents were outed of their benefices by superinstitutions upon presentations of the King.
1644. Owen, Duty of Pastors & People, i. 6. A superinstitution of a new ordinance, doth not overthrow any thing that went before in the same kinde.
1669. Grimston, trans. Croke’s Rep., II. 464. If this sentence should make the admission and institution void ab initio, it would destroy the induction of the King, and make the superinstitution (which at the first was meerly void) to be good.
1672. Cowell’s Interpr., Super-institution..., one Institution upon another; as where A. is admitted and instituted to a Benefice upon one Title, and B. is admitted, instituted, &c. by the Presentment of another.
1767. R. Burn, Eccl. Law (ed. 2), I. 152. If a second institution is granted to the same church, this is a superinstitution.
