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Definition of Supreme

1. Adjective. Final or last in your life or progress. "The supreme judgment"

2. Adjective. Greatest in status or authority or power. "A supreme tribunal"

3. Adjective. Highest in excellence or achievement. "Supreme courage"

4. Adjective. Greatest or maximal in degree; extreme. "Supreme folly"

Definition of Supreme

1. a. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.

Definition of Supreme

1. Proper noun. The Supreme Being; the Almighty; God. ¹

2. Proper noun. A deity with such name. ¹

3. Adjective. Dominant, having power over all others. ¹

4. Adjective. At the greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) (cooking) To divide a citrus fruit into its segments, removing the skin, pith, membranes, and seeds. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Supreme

1. highest in power or authority [adj -PREMER, -PREMEST] / a smooth white sauce made with chicken stock [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Supreme

supravisors supravital supravitally supravulgar suprema supremacies supremacism supremacist supremacists supremacy

supremal suprematism suprematisms suprematist suprematists supreme (current term) supreme authority supreme being supreme beings supreme courts

supreme headquarters supreme sacrifice supremed supremely supremeness supremenesses supremer supremes supremest supreming

Literary usage of Supreme

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William L. Hickey, United States (1847)
"MARSHALS OF THE UNITED STATES ATTENDANT ON THE supreme COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Under the construction of the judiciary act of 1789, the Marshals of all ..."

2. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1853)
"MARSHALS OF THE UNITED STATES ATTENDANT ON THE supreme COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Under the construction of the judiciary act of 1789, the Marshals of all ..."

3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"HIGH RANK OF THE supreme COURT AMONGST THE GREAT POWERS OF STATE No nation ever constituted so great a judicial power as the Americans —Extent of its ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the knowledge, therefore, and love of God as the supreme Good ... The highest good may mean either the supreme (supremum") or the Complete (consummatum). ..."

5. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"MARSHALS OE THE UNITED STATES ATTENDANT ON THE supreme COURT OÏ THE UNITED STATES. Under the construction of the judiciary act of 1789, the Marshals of all ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The general meeting of the law-making body (The supreme Tent) is held once in three years, at which the members are represented through delegates chosen ..."

7. The City of God by Augustine, Marcus Dods (1871)
"AUGUSTINE REVIEWS THE OPINIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS ESCARDINO THE supreme GOOD, ... These t\vo ends, therefore, are the supreme good and the supreme evil ..."

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