[ad. eccl. L. superordinātio, -ōnem choice of a bishop’s successor, f. superordināre: see SUPER- 13 and ORDINATION.]
1. Ordination of a person, while another still holds an office, to succeed him in that office when it shall become vacant. rare.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. ii. § 27. After the death of Augustine, Laurentius … succeeded him, whom Augustine, in his Life-time … ordained in that Place…. Such a super-Ordination in such cases was Canonicall.
2. Logic. The action of superordinating or condition of being superordinated; superordinate position or relation.
1864. Bowen, Logic, viii. 244. The relations of inclusion and exclusion, of subordination and superordination, of Intension and Extension, existing between two Concepts and a Third.
1887. W. L. Davidson in Mind, April, 234. The relations that obtain between groups are those of subordination, superordination and co-ordination.
