excellere

The word “excellent” also derived from the Latin—excellens, which was the present participle of the same word excellere,“to excel.”

Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

And, as I would have you omnibus ornatum — excellere rebus, I think nothing above or below my pointing out to you, or your excelling in.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

The hotel Charlie was staying at was called the Excelsior, a prime example of hyperbole, perhaps, in that the word derived from the Latin excelsus, from the past participle of excellere, which meant “to excel.”

Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

Memmiadae nostro, quem tu, dea, tempore in omni omnibus ornatum voluisti excellere rebus. '

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Thus: -- est mōs hominum ut nōlint eundem plūribus rēbus excellere, _it is the way of men not to wish the same person to excel in many things.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

Memmiadae nostro, quem tu, dea, tempore in omni omnibus ornatum uoluisti excellere rebus. quo magis aeternum da dictis, diua, leporem. effice ut interea fera moenera militiai per maria ac terras omnis sopita quiescant.

Exordium Lucretius 1912

Admonemur praeterea celebratione coenae Dominicae, ut memores simus, cujus corporis membra facti simus, et idcirco concordes simus cum omnibus fratribus, ut sancte vivamus, et non polluamus nos flagitiis et peregrinis religionibus. sed in vera fide in finem usque vitae perseverantes, studeamus excellere sanctimonia vitae.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Admonemur praeterea celebratione coenae Dominicae, ut memores simus, cujus corporis membra facti simus, et idcirco concordes simus cum omnibus fratribus, ut sancte vivamus, et non polluamus nos flagitiis et peregrinis religionibus. sed in vera fide in finem usque vitae perseverantes, studeamus excellere sanctimonia vitae.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

[48] _Quem tu, dea, tempore in omni Omnibus ornatum voluisti excellere rebus_.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

And, as I would have you 'omnibus ornatum -- excellere rebus', I think nothing above or below my pointing out to you, or your excelling in.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733