a. [SUPER- 4 a.] That is above, beyond or superior to the ordinary.
1630. R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., 388. Recommended to that honour, for some superordinary skill at their weapon.
1706. E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 43. When he gets a superordinary Dinner.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), V. 57. A man of super-ordinary probity.
1903. Edin. Rev., Jan., 77. He [Henry James] has shown … a fondness for influences which should be rather defined as superordinary than supernatural.
