superiora

Although objects of higher order are based on infima they are not reducible to them; properties of superiora supervene on properties of their inferiora.

Salvation Santa 2009

Radices plurimae filiformes, cortice crassa, tenacissima obfibras foliiformas ad vaginam redacta, superiora petiolique purpureo-brunnei, vernatione involutiva, flores solitarii in axillis foliorum et vaginarum, albi carneo tincti.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

_Cal_. bilabiata supra planisculis, medio carinatus, _Cor_. pallida, caerulea, bilabiata, labio superiora subfornicata: lateralibus subrevolutis.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

He then speaks of a blackish, hard and very painful tumor of the thigh, which, when it ascends the thigh (_ad superiora ascendit_) is mortal, but if it descends is less dangerous.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

And Sir Walter Raleigh well says, "The stars are instruments of far greater use than to give an obscure light, and for men to gaze on after sunset"; and he quotes Plotinus as affirming that they "are significant, but not efficient"; and also Augustine as saying, "_Deus regit inferiora corpora per superiora_": God rules the bodies below by those above.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

* Ex hoc sunt in rebus aliqua superiora, quod sunt uni primo, quod est Deus, propinquiora et similiora: [456] 1

The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

"Sed unde huic," inquam, "tali maeror ullus obrepat ne cogitare quidem possum; quare plenum esse laetitiae, si quidem superiora manebunt, necesse est confiteri."

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

Iam uero corporis bona promptum est ut ad superiora referantur.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

The _studia inferiora_, or lower school, which covered the six years from ten to twelve years of age up to sixteen to eighteen; and the _studia superiora_, which followed, and included the higher college and university courses, with philosophy and theology as the important subjects.

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

_Studia inferiora_ and _superiora_ of Jesuit schools, 185.

History of Education Levi Seeley 1887