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.”

  Fictionaut: Salvation Santa

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “_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

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

  The Following of Christ.

• “Iam uero corporis bona promptum est ut ad superiora referantur.”

  The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy

• “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

• “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

• “_Studia inferiora_ and _superiora_ of Jesuit schools, 185.”

  History of Education

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