Sun-Gilt to Supremely

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

sun-gilt, adj. (1)

    F 6.48 17 There is no need for foolish amateurs to fetch me to admire...a sun-gilt cloud...

sun-god, n. (1)

    ET16 5.282 10 Hercules, in the legend, drew his bow at the sun, and the sun-god gave him a golden cup, with which he sailed over the ocean.

sunk, v. (10)

    DSA 1.145 3 See how nations and races...leave no ripple to tell where they floated or sunk...
    ShP 4.191 2 The human race has gone out before [the great man], sunk the hills, filled the hollows and bridged the rivers.
    GoW 4.286 20 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...a period of ten years...after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in silence.
    ET2 5.29 21 To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change, now blown up like a tumor, now sunk in a chasm...
    ET18 5.300 24 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape, the nose sunk, the gums were exposed...
    Wth 6.113 9 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man...has sunk the necessity for false expenses.
    PPo 8.264 23 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    HDC 11.33 6 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water...
    War 11.158 21 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships...
    TPar 11.288 1 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them, and so sunk into melancholy or malignity...

sunken, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.397 25 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./

sunlight, n. (7)

    Pt1 3.29 15 [The poet's] cheerfulness should be the gift of the sunlight;...
    Art2 7.46 4 [The temple] is exalted by the beauty of sunlight...
    Art2 7.48 4 ...[the artist] saw that his planting and his watering waited for the sunlight of Nature, or were vain.
    DL 7.130 7 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be...yielded as freely as the sunlight to all.
    WD 7.175 6 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was common lime and silex and water and sunlight...
    PerF 10.70 15 ...the marble column, the brazen statue...would soon decompose if their molecular structure, disturbed by the raging sunlight, were not restored by the darkness of the night.
    Prch 10.221 17 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To wander all day in the sunlight among the tribes of animals, unrelated to anything better;...

sunlike, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.60 12 [Plato] could well afford to be generous,--who from the sunlike centrality and reach of his vision, had a faith without cloud.

sun-mirror, n. (1)

    PPo 8.264 30 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/...

sunnier, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.135 21 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...importing into their galleries every tint and trait of sunnier cities and skies;...

sunny, adj. (11)

    Con 1.311 19 ...for thee the fair Mediterranean, the sunny Adriatic;...
    Comp 2.126 27 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
    Mrs1 3.151 9 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these influences, for days, for weeks, and we shall be sunny poets...
    Mrs1 3.154 22 ...[Osman's] great heart lay there so sunny and hospitable in the centre of the country, that it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers drew them to his side.
    Nat2 3.169 18 To have lived through all [the day's] sunny hours, seems longevity enough.
    SlHr 10.448 28 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
    RBur 11.438 4 He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./
    Mem 12.103 17 In solitude, in darkness, we tread over again the sunny walks of youth;...
    CL 12.157 8 Can you bring home...the sunny shores of your own bay, and the low Indian hills of Rhode Island?...

sun-path, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.189 16 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ The mill-round of our fate appears/ A sun-path in thy worth./

sunrise, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.311 4 The cloud-rack, the sunrise and sunset glories...are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them...

sunrise, n. (9)

    Nat 1.17 4 I see the spectacle of morning...from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share.
    Tran 1.344 8 If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset.
    Fdsp 2.189 8 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./ I fancied he was fled,/ And, after many a year,/ Glowed unexhausted kindliness/ Like daily sunrise there./
    Pt1 3.10 21 We sat in the aurora of a sunrise which was to put out all the stars.
    ET5 5.84 6 A manufacturer [in England] sits down to dinner in a suit of clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.
    Cour 7.275 18 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity; but to the hero whose intellect is aggrandized by the soul...these terrors vanish as darkness at sunrise.
    Thor 10.468 3 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset...
    MLit 12.331 13 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets before sunrise, or after sunset, or on a rare holiday, to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...
    Pray 12.350 5 ...with true prayers,/ That shall be up at heaven and enter there/ Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,/ From fasting maids, whose minds are delicate/ To nothing temporal./ Shakspeare..

sunrises, n. (3)

    Exp 3.63 5 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of Nature's pictures in every street, of sunsets and sunrises every day...
    Suc 7.298 5 What is it we look for...in sunsets and sunrises...
    QO 8.188 9 People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own...

suns, n. (11)

    DSA 1.137 6 The faith should blend with the light of rising and of setting suns...
    MN 1.202 3 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off...suns and planets hospitable to souls...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to... glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    Art1 2.364 24 I do not wonder that Newton, with an attention habitually engaged on the paths of planets and suns, should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
    Pt1 3.21 13 [The poet] knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and stars;...
    F 6.22 21 ...the lightning...maker of planets and suns, is in [man].
    Wth 6.83 4 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/
    Ctr 6.155 27 Solitude...is to genius...the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
    PC 8.222 18 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    Imtl 8.327 7 ...Swedenborg...described the moral faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer describing the suns and planets of our system...
    CPL 11.499 24 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night...less gratified than the gay lark amid the flowers and suns?
    PLT 12.32 24 The sun may shine, or a galaxy of suns; you will get no more light than your eye will hold.

Suns, n. (1)

    SHC 11.434 22 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...

sunset, adj. (5)

    MN 1.214 8 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that.
    Nat2 3.173 12 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant. These sunset clouds...signify it and proffer it.
    Ill 6.311 5 The cloud-rack, the sunrise and sunset glories...are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them...
    Farm 7.149 13 [Peaches and grapes]...never tell on your table whence they drew their sunset complexion or their delicate flavors.
    OA 7.313 13 I care not if the pomps [clouds] show/ Be what they soothfast appear,/ Or if yon realms in sunset glow/ Be bubbles of the atmosphere./

sunset, n. (19)

    Nat 1.17 14 ...the sunset and moonrise [are] my Paphos...
    Nat 1.17 21 Not less excellent...was the charm...of a January sunset.
    Nat 1.18 3 The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset...
    AmS 1.84 25 Every day...after sunset, Night and her stars.
    Tran 1.344 9 If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset.
    Lov1 2.180 24 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when... [the beholder] cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.
    Exp 3.50 13 It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.
    Nat2 3.173 2 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight...
    Nat2 3.178 4 The sunset is unlike anything that is underneath it: it wants men.
    Nat2 3.193 3 ...what recesses of ineffable pomp and loveliness in the sunset!
    NMW 4.246 9 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!--when spying the Alps, by a sunset in the Sicilian sea;...
    ET13 5.216 15 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The lord who compelled his boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and sunset on Sunday, forfeited him altogether.
    Wth 6.122 18 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day...
    Ill 6.311 11 In admiring the sunset we do not yet deduct the rounding, coordinating, pictorial powers of the eye.
    Suc 7.300 17 The hues of sunset make life great;...
    QO 8.188 12 As they do by books, so [people] quote the sunset and the star...
    Thor 10.468 3 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset...
    CInt 12.130 7 Watch the breaking morning, the enchantments of the sunset.
    MLit 12.331 13 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets before sunrise, or after sunset, or on a rare holiday, to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...

sunsets, n. (10)

    LE 1.168 1 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]... listlessly looked at sunsets...
    Exp 3.50 14 There are always sunsets, and there is always genius;...
    Exp 3.63 4 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of Nature's pictures in every street, of sunsets and sunrises every day...
    Pow 6.78 23 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature... gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    Suc 7.298 5 What is it we look for...in sunsets and sunrises...
    PI 8.26 3 [People] like to see sunsets on the hills...
    PI 8.37 7 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage, as much as sunsets and souls;...
    QO 8.188 9 People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own...
    Imtl 8.321 2 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/
    CW 12.171 5 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying...

sunshine, n. (30)

    MR 1.255 8 ...one day...every calamity will be dissolved in the universal sunshine.
    MR 1.255 14 An Arabian poet describes his hero by saying, Sunshine was he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/ Coolness and shade./
    Comp 2.127 1 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower, with...too much sunshine for its head, by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
    Hsm1 2.257 27 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine.
    Int 2.333 25 If you gather apples in the sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright light...
    Art1 2.351 20 [The painter] will give the gloom of gloom and the sunshine of sunshine.
    ShP 4.216 5 Homer lies in sunshine;...
    ShP 4.219 18 ...knowledge will brighten the sunshine;...
    GoW 4.290 11 Genius hovers with [Goethe's] sunshine and music close by the darkest and deafest eras.
    ET8 5.134 15 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    Wth 6.101 26 [The farmer] knows how much land [his dollar] represents;-- how much rain, frost and sunshine.
    CbW 6.243 18 Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,/ Drink the wild air's salubrity/...
    CbW 6.264 9 Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches...
    CbW 6.264 22 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing, such are its preserving qualities in damp climates. Well, sunshine costs less, yet is finer pigment.
    Farm 7.148 17 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
    WD 7.173 8 Hume's doctrine was...that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot;...had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    Dem1 10.10 12 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
    PerF 10.71 5 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
    SovE 10.188 8 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine...
    MoL 10.239 1 On bravely through the sunshine and the showers,/ Time hath his work to do, and we have ours./
    SlHr 10.446 24 ...let the cloud rest where it might, [Samuel Hoar] dwelt in eternal sunshine.
    FSLC 11.179 14 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts, which...takes the sunshine out of every hour.
    EPro 11.318 19 'T is wonderful what power is...and how its ill use makes... the sunshine dark.
    EPro 11.322 4 Every man's house-lot and garden are relieved of the malaria [slavery] which the purest winds and strongest sunshine could not penetrate and purge.
    II 12.73 8 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us...how the daily sunshine and sap may be made to feed wheat instead of moss and Canada thistle;...
    CL 12.140 10 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of Calcutta...maturing plants which require strongest sunshine...
    Bost 12.182 12 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./
    ACri 12.302 10 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking, soft sunshine and hailstones...
    EurB 12.374 10 ...[the complete man] would be obeyed as naturally as the rain and the sunshine are.
    PPr 12.386 6 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the tone wearies whilst it stimulates. It is felt to be so much deduction from the universality of the picture. It is not serene sunshine, but everything is seen in lurid storm-lights.

sun-stroke, n. [sunstroke,] (3)

    Civ 7.21 18 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost, sun-stroke and weather;...
    Farm 7.152 4 The sun-stroke which knocks [the first planter] down brings his corn up.
    Bost 12.183 19 There is the climate of the Sahara...where is day after day, sunstroke after sunstroke...

superabound, v. (1)

    Exp 3.66 4 ...nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.

super-abounded, v. (1)

    SlHr 10.445 18 The useful and practical super-abounded in [Samuel Hoar' s] mind...

superabundant, adj. (2)

    SMC 11.356 22 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs, men who...found sphere at last for their superabundant energy;...
    Trag 12.413 2 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic air. This is not beautiful. Could they not lay a rod or two of stone wall, and work off this superabundant irritability?

superabundantly, adv. (1)

    Exp 3.83 27 ...I am not annoyed by receiving this or that superabundantly.

superadded, v. (1)

    NMW 4.229 12 ...Bonaparte superadded to this mineral and animal force, insight and generalization...

superb, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.102 22 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation...almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
    Clbs 7.243 5 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the horses out of and the scholars into the palaces, having constructed her hotel...with superb suites of drawing-rooms on the same floor...

superba, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.305 24 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty, vis superba formae, which the poets praise...

superbly, adv. (1)

    PPo 8.246 1 The world is a bride superbly dressed;-/ Who weds her for dowry must pay his soul./

supercilious, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.25 18 ...supercilious [means] the raising of the eyebrow.

superciliously, adv. (2)

    Schr 10.266 26 The cant of the time inquires superciliously after the new ideas;...
    MLit 12.317 20 There are facts on which men of the world superciliously smile, which are worth all their trade and politics;...

super-essential, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.61 26 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored...that which is entity and nonentity. He called it super-essential.
    ET1 5.12 7 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining: The Trinitarian doctrine was realism; the idea of God was not essential, but super-essential;...

super-exist, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.25 11 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations...

superficial, adj. (57)

    Nat 1.8 25 Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing.
    Nat 1.43 20 Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious...but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness.
    Nat 1.75 14 Learn that none of these [common] things is superficial...
    LE 1.176 4 We live in the sun and on the surface,-a thin, plausible, superficial existence...
    LT 1.275 9 Do you suppose that the reforms which are preparing will be as superficial as those we know?
    LT 1.289 15 ...the granite comes to the surface and towers into the highest mountains, and, if we dig down, we find it below the superficial strata...
    Tran 1.352 24 My life is superficial...
    Hist 2.26 26 ...the vaunted distinction...between Classic and Romantic schools, seems superficial and pedantic.
    Art1 2.367 5 Art must not be a superficial talent...
    Pt1 3.14 18 Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial.
    Pt1 3.15 23 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities.
    Exp 3.63 26 ...hawk and snipe and bittern...have no more root in the deep world than man, and are just such superficial tenants of the globe.
    NER 3.268 24 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
    NER 3.280 22 The disparities of power in men are superficial;...
    NER 3.281 9 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess that his creative imagination gave him no deep advantage, but only the superficial one that he could express himself and the other could not;...
    PPh 4.48 3 We unite all things...by perceiving the superficial differences and the profound resemblances.
    SwM 4.139 2 Every thing is superficial and perishes but love and truth only.
    MoS 4.165 8 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial.
    MoS 4.183 11 I play with the miscellany of facts, and take those superficial views which we call skepticism;...
    GoW 4.266 1 ...there is a certain ridicule, among superficial people, thrown on the scholars or clerisy...
    GoW 4.281 8 ...[the German intellect] has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance...
    ET1 5.19 16 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.
    ET8 5.134 19 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty; making this temperament a sea to which all storms are superficial;...
    ET14 5.259 23 While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone...
    ET18 5.302 12 What we must say about a nation is a superficial dealing with symptoms.
    ET19 5.311 23 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which stands in strong contrast with the superficial attachments of other races...
    Pow 6.80 10 ...there are sublime considerations which limit the value of talent and superficial success.
    Bhr 6.169 24 If [manners] are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
    Bhr 6.190 27 In this country...we have a superficial culture...
    CbW 6.248 22 Franklin said, Mankind are very superficial and dastardly...
    CbW 6.278 3 ...to the grand interests, superficial success is of no account.
    Bty 6.288 24 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement-- much of it superficial and absurd enough--about works of art...
    SS 7.9 19 We have a fine right...to taunt men of the world with superficial and treacherous courtesies!
    Art2 7.57 4 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings. These are superficial wants;...
    Art2 7.57 5 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings. These are superficial wants; and their fruits are these superficial institutions.
    Elo1 7.81 18 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence, but the power that...being absent, leaves them a merely superficial value.
    Boks 7.197 8 ...I will venture...to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
    Boks 7.206 7 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.
    Cour 7.265 12 Bodily pain is superficial...
    Cour 7.265 17 Pain is superficial...
    PI 8.28 19 ...[Lear] becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects.
    PI 8.28 23 Imagination is central; fancy, superficial.
    Aris 10.35 14 The manners, the pretension, which annoy me so much, are not superficial...
    Aris 10.37 19 ...we dislike every mark of a superficial life and action...
    Aris 10.59 1 ...to the grand interests, a superficial success is of no account.
    Chr2 10.108 9 ...the [religious] change is in what is superficial; the principles are immortal...
    MoL 10.245 4 We have superficial sciences...
    MoL 10.247 16 The fears and agitations of men who watch...the plenty or scarcity of money, or other superficial events, are not for [the scholar].
    Thor 10.475 2 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition, and his thirst for this made him negligent and perhaps scornful of superficial graces.
    EPro 11.316 16 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator...having run over the superficial fitness and commodities of the measure he urges... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    EdAd 11.389 25 ...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people; for the reason that this is simply a formal and superficial interest;...
    CL 12.143 2 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes] is at no time a superficial light...
    MAng1 12.233 15 ...let no man suppose...that this profound soul [Michelangelo] was taken or holden in the chains of superficial beauty.
    WSL 12.341 6 In these busy days...when there is so little disposition...to any but the most superficial intellectual entertainments, a faithful scholar... is a friend and consoler of mankind.
    WSL 12.348 20 ...what skill of transition [Landor] may possess is superficial...
    PPr 12.381 2 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people...
    Trag 12.410 9 [Sorrow] is superficial;...

superficial, n. (1)

    Schr 10.264 10 [The scholar] is here to be the beholder of the real; self-centred amidst the superficial;...

superficially, adv. (4)

    Nat 1.45 24 Unfortunately every one of [the human forms]...is marred and superficially defective.
    ET8 5.138 10 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous; that they are superficially morose, but at last tender-hearted...
    Aris 10.33 13 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation, or rumor, or influence of good and fair...superficially touched... and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    II 12.73 25 ...when we consider who and what the professors of that art usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and superficially on its artists?

superficialness, n. (3)

    F 6.5 4 Our America has a bad name for superficialness.
    LLNE 10.342 26 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise, their education and reading...had the American superficialness...
    Let 12.402 17 Superficialness is the real distemper.

superficies, n. (2)

    NR 3.248 14 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I loved the centre, but doated on the superficies;...
    Thor 10.483 7 Immortal water, alive even to the superficies.

superfine, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.72 4 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and illustrations from... grooms and farriers and unnamable offices,--especially if he talked with any superfine person.
    Clbs 7.245 26 ...neither can we afford to be superfine.

superfineness, n. (1)

    EurB 12.371 10 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness.

superfluities, n. (4)

    YA 1.368 11 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara...and Nantasket Beach, are superfluities.
    Ctr 6.155 12 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that saves on superfluities...
    Bty 6.294 13 [Beauty] is the purgation of superfluities, said Michael Angelo.
    SHC 11.431 23 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters, where art has been employed only to remove superfluities...

superfluity, n. (6)

    Hsm1 2.253 5 What a disgrace is it to me...to bear the inventory of thy shirts, as one for superfluity, and one other for use!
    Exp 3.45 22 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that...though we have health and reason, yet we have no superfluity of spirit for new creation?
    ET9 5.148 5 ...this little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain is one of the secrets of their power and history.
    F 6.11 11 ...[a man] is an adulterer before he has yet looked on the woman, by the superfluity of animal...in his constitution.
    Edc1 10.141 25 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation;...
    Supl 10.174 21 ...Nature measures her greatness...by what remains when all superfluity and accessories are shorn off.

superfluous, adj. (17)

    MN 1.207 25 Is it for [a man] to account himself cheap and superfluous...
    YA 1.373 14 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy...not a superfluous grain of sand...
    SL 2.137 7 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire, quite superfluous when town-meetings are found to answer just as well.
    Exp 3.57 15 I cannot recall any form of man who is not superfluous sometimes.
    Mrs1 3.126 21 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. ... By swift consent everything superfluous is dropped...
    MoS 4.151 14 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say, Why cumber ourselves with superfluous realizations?...
    MoS 4.165 18 ...with all this really superfluous frankness [in Montaigne], the opinion of an invincible probity grows into every reader's mind.
    Bhr 6.195 24 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly.
    Bty 6.289 10 We ascribe beauty to that...which has no superfluous parts;...
    Bty 6.294 19 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all its strength in the poetry of columns.
    Elo1 7.72 16 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly,--few but very sweet words, since he was not talkative nor superfluous in speech...
    SA 8.85 17 ...the sentiment of honor and the wish to serve make all our pains superfluous.
    Elo2 8.115 23 [The orator's] speech must be just ahead of the assembly, ahead of the whole human race, or it is superfluous.
    QO 8.189 2 In every kind of parasite...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle, as being superfluous.
    Dem1 10.3 21 'T is superfluous to think of the dreams of multitudes...
    Schr 10.272 22 [The scholar] is the attorney of the world, and can never be superfluous where so vast a variety of questions are ever coming up to be solved...
    PLT 12.8 14 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor...is ready to prove that he knew so much [twenty years ago] that all further investigation was quite superfluous;...

superfluous, n. (2)

    NER 3.260 11 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to cast aside the superfluous...
    ACri 12.290 25 ...there must be [in writing] no cramp insufficiency, but the superfluous must be omitted.

superfluously, adv. (2)

    SwM 4.123 8 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory...
    Prch 10.224 14 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;... their senses, their talents, are superfluously active...

superfoetation, n. (1)

    UGM 4.30 18 The thoughtful youth laments the superfoetation of nature.

superhuman, adj. (5)

    PI 8.54 25 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn, so that mere synthesis produces a work quite superhuman.
    SovE 10.214 5 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    Plu 10.306 16 The central fact is the superhuman intelligence...
    MAng1 12.222 26 Seeing these works [of art] true to human nature and yet superhuman, we feel that we are greater than we know.
    PPr 12.383 6 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...because of...the waste of strength in gathering unripe fruits. The task is superhuman;...

superincumbent, adj. (3)

    LE 1.182 26 The student...is great only by being passive to the superincumbent spirit.
    MN 1.204 6 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole is oppressed by one superincumbent tendency...
    ACri 12.303 15 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is made to utter his part in the chorus of humanity...

superinduce, v. (2)

    Hist 2.15 18 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
    Comp 2.96 25 Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end.

superinduced, v. (2)

    PPh 4.53 8 [The Greeks] saw before them...no Indian caste, superinduced by the efforts of Europe to throw it off.
    EWI 11.104 8 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle...we too should wince.

superinduces, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.197 27 Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

superintend, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.224 4 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.

superior, adj. (125)

    Nat 1.72 7 [Man] perceives that...if still he have elemental power...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    AmS 1.104 24 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension of [fear's] nature and extent;...and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior.
    LE 1.184 1 Let [the scholar]...be an artist superior to tricks of art.
    LE 1.184 5 ...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature...
    MR 1.232 20 ...the general system of our trade...is a system...of superior keenness...
    LT 1.263 24 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he would;...but he must be...able to supplant our method and classification by the superior beauty of his own.
    Con 1.300 5 ...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century...
    Tran 1.358 27 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men, to...verify our bearings from superior chronometers.
    Hist 2.6 13 ...involuntarily we always read as superior beings.
    Hist 2.26 7 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all ages...but, as a class, from their superior organization, [the Greeks] have surpassed all.
    Hist 2.33 1 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them.
    Prd1 2.229 9 The last Grand Duke of Weimar, a man of superior understanding, said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    OS 2.288 5 ...the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame...
    OS 2.288 20 There is in all great poets a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
    OS 2.289 6 The soul is superior to its knowledge...
    OS 2.292 6 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction...of new ideas. They leave them wiser and superior men.
    Cir 2.318 23 That central life is somewhat superior to creation...
    Cir 2.318 23 That central life is somewhat...superior to knowledge and thought...
    Int 2.333 9 I knew...a person...who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior;...
    Pt1 3.17 5 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things...in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Mrs1 3.148 12 Scott is praised for the fidelity with which he painted the demeanor and conversation of the superior classes.
    Pol1 3.199 4 ...we ought to remember that...[the State's institutions] are not superior to the citizen;...
    Pol1 3.220 9 ...according to the order of nature, which is quite superior to our will, it stands thus; there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...
    Pol1 3.221 17 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable...men of talent and women of superior sentiments cannot hide their contempt.
    NR 3.234 2 This preference of the genius to the parts is the secret of that deification of art, which is found in all superior minds.
    NER 3.264 13 These new associations are composed of men and women of superior talents and sentiments;...
    NER 3.277 22 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine, and use me and mine freely to your ends! for I could not say it otherwise than because a great enlargement had come to my heart and mind, which made me superior to my fortunes.
    NER 3.281 18 Each [man] is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty.
    UGM 4.7 25 Our common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men.
    UGM 4.29 6 How superior [are children] in their security from infusions of evil persons...
    SwM 4.109 7 ...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior...
    MoS 4.171 20 Every superior mind will pass through this domain of equilibration [skepticism]...
    MoS 4.172 8 ...the interrogation of custom at all points is an inevitable stage in the growth of every superior mind...
    MoS 4.172 12 The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society and with the projects that are offered to relieve them.
    ShP 4.195 22 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear.
    ShP 4.217 21 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, Very superior pyrotechny this evening?
    NMW 4.232 18 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.
    NMW 4.243 11 Like every superior person, [Napoleon] undoubtedly felt a desire for men and compeers...
    NMW 4.251 7 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence? Its own means are superior to all the apparatus of your laboratories.
    GoW 4.264 11 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office;...
    GoW 4.272 24 The wonder of the book [Goethe's Helena] is its superior intelligence.
    ET1 5.5 3 I have...found writers superior to their books...
    ET1 5.5 22 Greenough was a superior man...
    ET4 5.46 18 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed...to laws and traditions, nor to fortune; but to superior brain...
    ET6 5.115 4 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing, have tried every thing, and can do every thing, and are quite superior to letters and science.
    ET8 5.136 13 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek.
    ET11 5.173 27 The superior education and manners of the [English] nobles recommend them to the country.
    ET12 5.207 26 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills... and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    ET14 5.242 20 ...the very announcement...even of Dalton's doctrine of definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind, which remains a superior evidence to empirical demonstrations.
    F 6.11 19 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
    Pow 6.80 6 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point or by working power, over multitudes of superior men...
    Ctr 6.149 14 Boys and girls who have been brought up with well-informed and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
    Bhr 6.193 5 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness...
    Wsp 6.232 11 It is strange that superior persons should not feel that they have some better resistance against cholera than avoiding green peas and salads.
    SS 7.9 5 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons...
    SS 7.11 23 ...the one event which never loses its romance is the encounter with superior persons on terms allowing the happiest intercourse.
    Civ 7.20 24 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them.
    Elo1 7.64 16 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...so that he who converses with him will appear to be in no respect superior to a boy.
    Elo1 7.87 16 The superior court must establish the law for this...
    DL 7.125 1 We...are still villagers, who think that every thing in their petty town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else.
    Boks 7.196 2 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect.
    Clbs 7.241 2 Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself...
    Clbs 7.242 10 ...we perhaps live with people too superior to be seen...
    Cour 7.264 19 Courage...consists in the conviction that the agents with whom you contend are not superior in strength of resources or spirit to you.
    Cour 7.271 15 If Governor Wise is a superior man...he distinguishes John Brown.
    Cour 7.271 16 If Governor Wise is a superior man, or inasmuch as he is a superior man, he distinguishes John Brown.
    SA 8.93 3 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women...
    SA 8.101 9 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility...
    SA 8.103 22 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    Elo2 8.124 21 Every one has felt how superior in force is the language of the street to that of the academy.
    Res 8.147 27 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled, and...converted a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
    QO 8.198 2 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    QO 8.203 17 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or Campbell, or Byron, or the artists, arrive...
    PC 8.216 26 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...superior souls...
    PC 8.226 3 At any time, it only needs the contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the public mind.
    PC 8.227 7 No angel in his heart acknowledges any one superior to himself but the Lord alone.
    PC 8.230 9 ...superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
    Insp 8.268 7 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Insp 8.277 9 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves...
    Insp 8.279 12 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness, nor can anything grand or superior to the voice of common mortals be spoken except by the agitated soul.
    Grts 8.318 4 Voltaire is brilliant, nimble and various, but Frederick has the superior tone.
    Grts 8.319 19 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village:...it happens that there are no fine young men, no superior women in my town.
    Dem1 10.18 15 [Demonic individuals] are not always superior persons...
    Dem1 10.24 18 ...[occult facts] are merely physiological, semi-medical... and no aid on the superior problems why we live, and what we do.
    Aris 10.34 16 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.37 10 The superior man is at home in his own mind.
    Aris 10.40 2 I enumerate the claims by which men enter the superior class.
    Aris 10.47 2 The only relief that I know against the invidiousness of superior position is, that you exert your faculty;...
    Aris 10.48 25 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave...
    Aris 10.51 24 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace... everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    Aris 10.55 4 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself.
    Chr2 10.93 26 [The moral intuition]...looks to no superior essence.
    MoL 10.242 1 [The scholar] belongs to a superior society...
    Plu 10.301 24 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
    Plu 10.310 6 Now and then there are hints of superior science [in Plutarch].
    Plu 10.315 4 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa...
    LLNE 10.353 27 ...there is an intellectual courage and strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding;...
    MMEm 10.405 3 ...the love of superior virtue is mine own gift from God.
    MMEm 10.412 8 There is a sweet pleasure in bending to circumstances while superior to them.
    MMEm 10.415 1 Oh, if there be a power superior to me...when will He let my lights go out...
    Thor 10.465 12 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was never affectionate, but superior...
    HDC 11.74 6 ...Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge [at Concord].
    EWI 11.136 13 ...Derived power cannot be superior to the power from which it is derived...
    EWI 11.136 21 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there, superior to any man...
    FSLN 11.221 7 ...[Webster] was, without effort, as superior to his most eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
    FSLN 11.235 5 Cromwell said, We can only resist the superior training of the King's soldiers, by enlisting godly men.
    FSLN 11.238 14 The masters of slaves seem generally anxious to prove that they are not of a race superior in any noble quality to the meanest of their bondsmen.
    FSLN 11.241 5 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...
    FSLN 11.241 6 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...
    ALin 11.334 14 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph...of the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class president, at last. Yes, in manners and sympathies, but not in powers, for his powers were superior.
    Shak1 11.448 23 [Shakespeare] is as superior to his countrymen, as to all other countrymen.
    Scot 11.465 11 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances...
    Scot 11.467 17 ...wherever he lived, [Scott] found superior men...
    FRO2 11.490 8 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen, as if only to enhance by their dimness the superior light of Christianity.
    FRep 11.513 27 ...if this is true in all the useful and in the fine arts, that the direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
    FRep 11.527 19 The legislature, to which every good farmer goes once on trial, is a superior academy.
    PLT 12.8 1 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose. In so many hundreds of superior men hardly ten or five or two from whom one can hope for a reasonable word.
    PLT 12.21 24 ...there is development from less to more, from lower to superior function...
    II 12.81 5 All conquests that history tells of will be found to resolve themselves into the superior mental powers of the conquerors...
    Bost 12.210 19 Let us shame the fathers, by superior virtue in the sons.
    MAng1 12.238 19 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy.
    MLit 12.321 16 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert.
    MLit 12.321 22 The soul is superior to its knowledge...
    EurB 12.368 19 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show, with great deference to the superior judgment of dukes and earls, that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...
    EurB 12.374 3 It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

superior, n. (6)

    Wsp 6.218 5 The superiority that has no superior;...is love.
    Wsp 6.229 5 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind you. Whilst your habit or whim chatters, we civilly and impatiently wait until that wise superior shall speak again.
    Cour 7.258 13 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    QO 8.178 12 ...he that uses [the understanding] of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
    JBS 11.278 8 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior.
    EurB 12.372 3 It is long since we have had as good a lyrist [as Tennyson]; it will be long before we have his superior.

superiorities, n. (6)

    Fdsp 2.210 22 Worship [your friend's] superiorities;...
    PNR 4.89 24 I am sorry to see [Plato], after such noble superiorities, permitting [in The Republic] the lie to governors.
    Bty 6.286 4 No object really interests us but man, and in man only his superiorities;...
    Bty 6.296 16 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Some favors of condition must go with it, since a certain serenity is essential, but we love its reproofs and superiorities.
    Aris 10.34 6 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    MoL 10.241 20 The very disadvantages of [the scholar's] condition point at superiorities.

superiority, n. (62)

    LE 1.174 18 It is the noble, manlike, just thought, which is the superiority demanded of you...
    MN 1.192 27 The weaver should not be bereaved of his superiority to his work...
    LT 1.280 25 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and... he not only in his humility feels his superiority...but he makes you feel it too.
    Con 1.297 25 There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
    Tran 1.330 14 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts...
    Comp 2.112 24 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment...of superiority and inferiority.
    Fdsp 2.202 12 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either...
    Hsm1 2.258 21 ...when we hear [many extraordinary young men] speak of society, of books, of religion, we admire their superiority;...
    OS 2.279 12 If I am wilful, [my child] sets his will against mine...and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength.
    Int 2.329 14 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical.
    Exp 3.61 13 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority...
    Chr1 3.90 13 [The man of character's] victories are by demonstration of superiority...
    Mrs1 3.131 1 ...good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other.
    NER 3.262 13 No one gives the impression of superiority to the institution, which he must give who will reform it.
    NER 3.264 17 ...it may easily be questioned...whether those who have energy will not prefer their chance of superiority and power in the world, to the humble certainties of the association;...
    UGM 4.22 19 ...our system is one...of an injurious superiority.
    MoS 4.151 11 It is not strange that these men [predisposed to morals]... should affirm disdainfully the superiority of ideas.
    NMW 4.231 11 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority...
    NMW 4.251 20 [Bonaparte] has the good-nature of strength and conscious superiority.
    ET4 5.49 5 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war...
    ET4 5.49 7 ...the appetite for superiority grows by feeding.
    ET4 5.56 16 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. For if they have not numerical superiority where they anchor, they have only to sail a mile or two to find it.
    ET4 5.63 1 Alfieri said the crimes of Italy were the proof of the superiority of the stock;...
    ET7 5.117 2 Veracity...marks superiority in organization.
    ET7 5.119 20 [The English] confide in each other,--English believes in English. The French feel the superiority of this probity.
    ET11 5.174 22 All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.
    ET11 5.186 20 [The English upper classes] have the sense of superiority, the absence of all the ambitious effort which disgusts in the aspiring classes...
    Wth 6.124 19 ...Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.
    Ctr 6.142 6 I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.
    Ctr 6.144 20 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail to him this imaginary defect.
    Ctr 6.147 2 ...the phrase to know the world, or to travel, is synonymous with all men's ideas of advantage and superiority.
    Wsp 6.217 3 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. ... But, once satisfied of such superiority, we set no limit to our expectation of his genius.
    Wsp 6.218 5 The superiority that has no superior;...is love.
    Elo1 7.84 26 Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.
    Suc 7.283 20 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority...
    Suc 7.287 4 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...
    PI 8.57 6 The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
    SA 8.80 25 In the gymnasium or on the sea-beach [the well-mannered man' s] superiority does not leave him.
    QO 8.192 2 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.
    PC 8.214 5 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of names...hidden through their very superiority to their coevals...
    Aris 10.35 12 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can avail to outlaw, cut out, burn or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    Aris 10.35 16 The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me...
    Chr2 10.101 2 When a man is born with a profound moral sentiment...men readily feel the superiority.
    Chr2 10.115 5 The [moral] sentiment...disowns every superiority other than of deeper truth.
    Chr2 10.120 3 [Character] carries a superiority to all the accidents of life.
    Supl 10.179 9 If it come back...to the question of final superiority, it is too plain that there is no question that the star of empire rolls West...
    SovE 10.184 5 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
    SovE 10.194 20 Let [a man] find his superiority in not wishing superiority;...
    MoL 10.252 13 All superiority is [thought], or related to this.
    Plu 10.293 16 [Plutarch] has been represented...as having been appointed by [Trajan] the governor of Greece. He was a man whose real superiority had no need of these flatteries.
    LLNE 10.368 10 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed; and none others will barter for the most comfortable equality the chance of superiority.
    MMEm 10.405 3 ...The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested joy felt in others' superiority.
    Thor 10.464 8 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    Thor 10.473 9 [The farmers who employed Thoreau] felt, too, the superiority of character which addressed all men with a native authority.
    EWI 11.137 27 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive...
    EWI 11.140 6 ...the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority.
    ALin 11.331 17 ...[Lincoln] did not offend by superiority.
    Shak1 11.451 24 [Shakespeare's] mind has a superiority such that the universities should read lectures on him...
    CPL 11.500 1 ...in reference to her favorite authors, [Mary Moody Emerson] adds, The delight in others' superiority is my best gift from God.
    PLT 12.63 17 The superiority of the man is in the simplicity of his thought...
    Bost 12.209 14 ...[Boston] is very jealous of any superiority in these, its natural instinct and privilege.
    ACri 12.297 8 [Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality...

superiorly, adv. (1)

    NR 3.226 13 ...the audience, who have only to hear and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.

superiors, n. (10)

    NER 3.275 1 The same magnanimity shows itself...in the preference... which each man gives to the society of superiors over that of his equals.
    UGM 4.3 15 ...actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors.
    ET18 5.306 20 ...any forbearance from [an Englishman's] superiors surprises him...
    Ctr 6.137 6 Culture...puts [a man] among his equals and superiors...
    Civ 7.32 21 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue...I see what cubic values America has...
    SA 8.86 15 A man makes his inferiors his superiors by heat.
    Grts 8.313 6 [Fame] is...that fine element by which the good become partners of the greatness of their superiors.
    Grts 8.320 8 ...people are as those with whom they converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me. Why complain, as if a man's debt to his inferiors were not at least equal to his debt to his superiors?
    SovE 10.207 15 ...if there be really in us the wish to seek for our superiors... we shall not long look in vain.
    MMEm 10.419 9 It was His will that gives my [Mary Moody Emerson's] superiors to shine in wisdom, friendship, and ardent pursuits...

superlative, adj. (7)

    Int 2.343 13 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence...
    Mrs1 3.139 10 The person who...uses the superlative degree...puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
    Mrs1 3.145 6 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees.
    ShP 4.204 21 ...there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty...
    Wsp 6.213 4 You say there is no religion now. 'T is like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of his superlative effects.
    Supl 10.163 11 There is a superlative temperament which has no medium range...
    Supl 10.167 17 [The English mind] does not love the superlative but the positive degree.

superlative, n. (12)

    PPh 4.47 20 [Plato] leaves with Asia the vast and superlative;...
    MoS 4.168 26 Montaigne...never shrieks, or protests, or prays: no weakness, no convulsion, no superlative...
    ET7 5.118 25 An Englishman...avoids the superlative...
    Supl 10.163 22 [Those with the superlative temperament] use the superlative of grammar...
    Supl 10.164 5 ...the positive is the sinew of speech, the superlative the fat.
    Supl 10.165 22 ...there is an inverted superlative, or superlative contrary, which shivers, like Demophoon, in the sun...
    Supl 10.165 23 ...there is an inverted superlative, or superlative contrary, which shivers, like Demophoon, in the sun...
    Supl 10.170 18 [The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries, and followed by nine cold hurrahs. There was the vicious superlative.
    Supl 10.171 22 The superlative is as good as the positive, if it be alive.
    Supl 10.173 3 The superlative is the excess of expression.
    Supl 10.176 15 ...in Western nations the superlative in conversation is tedious and weak...
    Supl 10.177 27 ...the Orientals excel in costly arts...things which are the poetry and superlative of commerce.

superlatively, adv. (1)

    PPh 4.45 26 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...

superlatives, n. (3)

    Supl 10.164 4 Like the French, [those with the superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want,-not perceiving that superlatives are diminutives, and weaken;...
    Supl 10.172 22 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art...
    Supl 10.173 23 Superlatives must be bought by too many positives.

supernal, adj. (2)

    Suc 7.304 8 The supernal powers seem to take [the lover's] part.
    PPo 8.250 25 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous fun of Falstaff; for it is...created...to vent the joy of a supernal intelligence.

supernatural, adj. (8)

    Nat 1.25 10 The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history;...
    MN 1.213 7 ...man...must look at nature with a supernatural eye.
    LT 1.263 9 ...[persons] are the channel of supernatural powers.
    SR 2.77 14 Prayer...loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous.
    Nat2 3.175 4 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him the Dorian mythology...
    Pol1 3.205 24 The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix, as persons are organs of moral or supernatural force.
    NER 3.262 17 ...you must make me feel that you...by your natural and supernatural advantages do easily see to the end of [the institution]...
    Schr 10.273 21 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence, attributing to him the...conversing with supernatural allies?

supernatural, n. (5)

    LT 1.272 14 ...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man, which, amidst the natural, ever contains the supernatural for men.
    YA 1.391 11 ...only by the supernatural is a man strong;...
    Pt1 3.16 6 It is nature the symbol, nature certifying the supernatural...which [the coachman or the hunter] worships with coarse but sincere rites.
    Dem1 10.27 8 ...far be from me the impatience which cannot brook the supernatural...
    SovE 10.198 27 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted...

supernaturally, adv. (2)

    F 6.38 22 Life works both voluntarily and supernaturally in its neighborhood.
    Dem1 10.16 10 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him.

supernumerary, n. (1)

    Wth 6.118 2 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor; what to do with this supernumerary?

super-personal, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.241 25 ...the super-personal Heart,--[man] shall repose alone on that.

superposition, n. (2)

    Nat 1.67 13 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    F 6.16 5 ...the steadiness with which victory adheres to one tribe and defeat to another, is as uniform as the superposition of strata.

super-saturate, n. (1)

    Pow 6.71 25 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...

supersede, v. (7)

    Exp 3.58 16 Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
    Pol1 3.215 25 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy;...
    ET14 5.239 4 The rules of [idealism's] genesis or its diffusion are not known. That knowledge...would supersede all that we call science of the mind.
    Ctr 6.140 26 We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education.
    PI 8.3 10 The intellect...cannot supersede this tyrannic necessity [common sense].
    PPo 8.237 23 ...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.
    Schr 10.281 3 [Idealistic views] threaten the validity of contracts, but do not prevail so far as to establish the new kingdom which shall supersede contracts, oaths and property.

superseded, v. (7)

    MN 1.209 6 A man's wisdom is to know...that the best end must be superseded by a better.
    MR 1.254 14 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast...the impotence of... lines of defence, would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
    Tran 1.359 11 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...
    SL 2.137 2 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built...and which are superseded by the discovery of the law that water rises to the level of its source.
    Cir 2.309 15 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by...the intrepid conviction that his laws...may at any time be superseded...
    ET1 5.24 3 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark. In this connection he said of the Newtonian theory that it might yet be superseded and forgotten;...
    WD 7.165 20 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.

supersedes, v. (2)

    ET10 5.167 15 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when the fashion of shoe-strings supersedes buckles...
    Wth 6.107 16 There is in all our dealings a self-regulation that supersedes chaffering.

superseding, v. (1)

    PC 8.209 10 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...all... teaching nations the taking of government into their own hands, and superseding kings.

supersensible, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.16 15 Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions...

supersensible, n. (1)

    PNR 4.84 25 [Plato] saw that the globe of earth was not more lawful and precise than was the supersensible;...

supersensual, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.5 26 There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars...

supersensuous, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.280 23 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/ Refreshed from supersensuous founts,/ The soul to clearer vision mounts./

superserviceable, adj. (2)

    Con 1.322 9 What a compliment we pay to the good SPIRIT with our superserviceable zeal!
    SL 2.162 23 Why should we be busybodies and superserviceable?

superserviceably, adv. (1)

    Civ 7.29 23 We...run this way and that way superserviceably;...

superstition, n. (32)

    DSA 1.126 4 Man fallen into superstition...is never quite without the visions of the moral sentiment.
    LE 1.175 8 ...I would not have any superstition about solitude.
    MN 1.221 5 It is the office...of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.
    Hist 2.29 10 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
    Hist 2.29 15 [Each considerate person] learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition.
    SR 2.80 22 It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling... retains its fascination for all educated Americans.
    Comp 2.118 26 Men suffer all their life under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated.
    NMW 4.231 7 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born;...of a perception which did not suffer itself to be baulked or misled by any pretences of others, or any superstition or any heat or haste of his own.
    Ctr 6.154 19 'T is a superstition to insist on a special diet.
    Wsp 6.207 16 ...is not indifferentism as bad as superstition?
    CbW 6.276 27 Wherever there is failure, there is...some superstition about luck...
    Elo1 7.93 18 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    Clbs 7.232 2 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...try many fantastic tricks, under some superstition that there must be excitement and elevation;...
    Clbs 7.236 22 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company]...
    Comc 8.166 26 In science the jest at pedantry is analogous to that in religion which lies against superstition.
    Comc 8.170 7 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature, through some superstition of his house or equipage...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    Dem1 10.13 20 In times most credulous of these fancies the sense was always met and the superstition rebuked by the grave spirit of reason and humanity.
    Dem1 10.26 5 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions.
    Dem1 10.27 17 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
    SovE 10.199 14 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition.
    Prch 10.228 11 An era in human history is the life of Jesus; and the immense influence for good leaves all the perversion and superstition almost harmless.
    Schr 10.266 23 Men run out of one superstition into an opposite superstition...
    Schr 10.266 24 Men run out of one superstition into an opposite superstition...
    Plu 10.305 6 ...here is [Plutarch's] sentiment on superstition, somewhat condensed in Lord Bacon's citation of it...
    Plu 10.313 5 When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
    EWI 11.139 6 The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground.
    EdAd 11.386 9 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered...by...strict economists, quite empty of all superstition.
    Bost 12.192 19 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified.
    Bost 12.192 21 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified. The superstition which hung over the new ocean had not yet been scattered;...
    Milt1 12.267 1 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.
    PPr 12.387 13 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.
    Trag 12.407 16 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

superstitions, n. (17)

    Comp 2.95 23 ...our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.
    SL 2.161 5 We are full of these superstitions of sense, the worship of magnitude.
    Chr1 3.98 2 We boast our emancipation from many superstitions;...
    PPh 4.58 11 [Plato] has...a humanity which makes him tender for the superstitions of the people.
    NMW 4.242 6 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...holding the ideas and superstitions of a long-forgotten state of society.
    ET11 5.187 25 When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions...
    Ctr 6.144 11 We are full of superstitions.
    PI 8.34 15 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...not to use Scott's antique superstitions, or Shakspeare's, but to convert those of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    PI 8.38 1 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in wants, pains, anxieties and superstitions...
    PI 8.74 1 In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and newspaper, nay, their superstitions also, are hosts of ideals...
    SovE 10.201 16 We all give way to superstitions.
    Plu 10.301 21 [Plutarch's] superstitions are poetic, aspiring, affirmative.
    LLNE 10.336 19 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology...
    LLNE 10.354 17 [The Fourier marriage] was...full of absurd French superstitions about women;...
    PLT 12.29 17 There are two mischievous superstitions, I know not which does the most harm...
    PPr 12.387 5 ...[each age's] superstitions appear no superstitions to itself;...
    PPr 12.387 6 ...[each age's] superstitions appear no superstitions to itself;...

superstitious, adj. (11)

    Con 1.310 21 It is trivial and merely superstitious to say that nothing is given you...
    Tran 1.339 17 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on superstitious times, made prophets and apostles;...
    Hsm1 2.257 11 The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times...
    Nat2 3.182 26 If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns...
    Pol1 3.200 16 We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat...
    Clbs 7.247 1 Things which you fancy wrong [manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable; things which you reckon superstitious they know to be true.
    OA 7.330 18 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind...by its sequence...which gives it instantly radiating power, and justifies the superstitious instinct with which we have hoarded it.
    Supl 10.173 7 ...fit expression is so rare that mankind have a superstitious value for it...
    SovE 10.206 4 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because their whole existence is not bounded by their hats and their shoes...
    Schr 10.266 18 It was superstitious to exact too much from philosophers and the literary class.
    Bost 12.184 19 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...

superstitiously, adv. (1)

    FRep 11.532 13 [Our people] all lean on some other, and this superstitiously...

superstructure, n. (1)

    Farm 7.150 10 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story...that promises to pay a better rent than all the superstructure.

supervene, v. (1)

    ET13 5.214 22 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?

supervises, v. (1)

    ET15 5.268 12 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises, corrects, and co-ordinates.

supervision, n. (1)

    SovE 10.193 25 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life...

supervoluntary, adj. (1)

    II 12.72 1 The muse may be defined, Supervoluntary ends effected by supervoluntary means.

supped, v. (2)

    LT 1.274 4 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is liberally supped...
    Pow 6.67 8 ...[Boniface] made good friends of the selectmen, served them with his best chop when they supped at his house...

Supper, Last, n. (5)

    LS 11.5 6 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists...
    LS 11.9 3 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover.
    LS 11.9 4 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover.
    LS 11.14 11 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was, out of which this riot of theirs came, and so relates the transactions of the Last Supper.
    LS 11.15 22 ...it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...

Supper, Lord's, n. (11)

    DSA 1.140 19 Will [the poor preacher] invite [people] privately to the Lord' s Supper?
    LS 11.3 5 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper.
    LS 11.4 21 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
    LS 11.11 14 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
    LS 11.11 20 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples's feet] in St. John, and tell me if this be not much more explicitly authorized than the Supper.
    LS 11.11 21 [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] only differs in this, that we have found the [Lord's] Supper used in New England and the washing of the feet not.
    LS 11.12 10 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest...
    LS 11.13 26 Upon this matter of St. Paul's view of the [Lord's] Supper, a few important considerations must be stated.
    LS 11.14 3 The end which [St. Paul] has in view...is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
    LS 11.14 5 We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as if it enjoined attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper;...
    LS 11.17 13 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity...that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was given nowhere. Is not that the effect of the Lord's Supper?

supper, n. (5)

    Clbs 7.247 25 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis...
    MoL 10.251 9 Learn...to cook your supper.
    Plu 10.309 19 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that...he that was yesterday invited to supper, the next night comes an unbidden guest, for that he is quite another person.
    LLNE 10.341 1 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...
    Thor 10.457 8 ...at supper, a young girl, understanding that [Thoreau] was to lecture at the Lyceum, sharply asked him, Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...

suppers, n. (2)

    Clbs 7.243 24 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...many allusions to their suppers are found in Jonson, Herrick and in Aubrey.
    Clbs 7.248 7 No doubt the suppers of wits and philosophers acquire much lustre by time and renown.

supper-table, n. (1)

    Plu 10.319 15 [Plutarch]...delighted in bringing chosen companions to the supper-table.

supplant, v. (4)

    LT 1.263 23 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he would;...but he must be...able to supplant our method and classification by the superior beauty of his own.
    ET5 5.74 20 The Roman came [to England], but in the very day when his fortune culminated. He looked in the eyes of a new people that was to supplant his own.
    ET9 5.152 23 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    SovE 10.187 20 ...every truth brings that which will supplant it.

supplanted, v. (5)

    Con 1.304 15 The Indian and barbarous name can never be supplanted without loss.
    Lov1 2.188 26 That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations [of love], must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
    SovE 10.207 5 ...new views of inspiration, of miracles, of the saints, have supplanted the old opinions...
    PLT 12.29 16 Whilst [man] draws on his own he cannot be overshadowed or supplanted.
    CInt 12.130 23 He that draws on his own talent cannot be overshadowed or supplanted.

supplants, v. (2)

    Exp 3.77 4 The great and crescive self...supplants all relative existence...
    LLNE 10.352 19 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...which makes or supplants a thousand phalanxes and New Harmonies with each pulsation.

supple, adj. (8)

    MR 1.230 21 The ways of trade are grown...supple to the borders (if not beyond the borders) of fraud.
    MR 1.239 15 ...instead of...that supple body...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    Hist 2.33 11 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    ET4 5.71 10 I suppose the dogs and horses [in England] must be thanked for the fact that the men have muscles almost as tough and supple as their own.
    Ctr 6.153 11 [The countryman in the city] has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe...
    Aris 10.43 3 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which yields a stock of strength and spirits for all the needs of the day...
    FSLC 11.212 7 The behavior of Boston was the reverse of what it should have been: it was supple and officious, and it put itself into the base attitude of pander to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    TPar 11.290 3 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a hypocrisy...

suppled, v. (1)

    Res 8.141 14 We Americans have got suppled into the state of melioration.

supplement, v. (2)

    PC 8.227 11 The dreams of the night supplement by their divination the imperfect experiments of the day.
    LLNE 10.358 25 Talents supplement each other.

supplemental, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.91 12 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./

supplementary, adj. (2)

    OS 2.277 2 Persons are supplementary to the primary teaching of the soul.
    Grts 8.305 2 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men...

supplements, n. (2)

    Con 1.318 24 ...[the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.
    Art1 2.369 5 When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

suppleness, n. (1)

    Bost 12.196 19 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...takes from the muscles their suppleness...

supples, v. (1)

    Res 8.140 16 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew...

supple-tempered, adj. (1)

    ALin 11.328 20 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./

suppletory, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.53 25 Characters and talents are complemental and suppletory.

supplicates, v. (1)

    Exp 3.82 14 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.

supplicating, adj. (4)

    Bhr 6.188 22 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders...give him a supplicating look as they pass.
    Wsp 6.241 20 [The new church founded on moral science] shall...shame these social, supplicating manners...
    SA 8.80 1 Whilst almost everybody has a supplicating eye turned on events and things and other persons, a few natures are central...
    SHC 11.428 10 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o'er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...

supplication, n. (1)

    SA 8.80 6 He...who answers you without any supplication in his eye...that man rules.

supplied, v. (18)

    Nat 1.46 13 When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    LE 1.180 15 ...[Napoleon's army was] strictly supplied in all its appointments...
    Con 1.315 6 ...the cabins of the peasants and the castles of the lords supplied [Friar Bernard's] few wants.
    Hist 2.24 9 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
    Exp 3.69 17 ...I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal.
    ET5 5.88 27 I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
    ET13 5.229 10 ...the religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man.
    ET14 5.240 16 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied;...
    ET15 5.267 23 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the object to be attained...
    Pow 6.56 22 The advantage of a strong pulse is not to be supplied by any labor, art or concert.
    Wth 6.98 15 There is a refining influence from the arts of Design on a prepared mind which is...not to be supplied from any other source.
    Bty 6.303 14 Wordsworth rightly speaks of a light that never was on sea or land, meaning that it was supplied by the observer;...
    Farm 7.146 3 Whilst all thus burns...it needs...a centripetence equal to the centrifugence; and this is invariably supplied.
    Insp 8.276 9 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office, and all is vain until this capricious fuel is supplied.
    HDC 11.55 3 The very great immigration from England made the lands [near Concord] more valuable every year, and supplied a market for the produce.
    TPar 11.292 6 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]! it seems as if, in a frivolous age...your place cannot be supplied.
    ChiE 11.472 16 ...[China] has...historic records of forgotten time, that have supplied important gaps in the ancient history of the western nations.
    FRep 11.522 8 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be...no want that cannot be supplied...

supplies, n. (8)

    AmS 1.108 12 ...waxing greater by all these supplies, we crave a better and more abundant food.
    DSA 1.139 12 There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
    Mrs1 3.124 13 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons.
    ET8 5.130 20 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence, as if somebody were fumbling at the umbilical cord and might stop their supplies.
    ET8 5.132 2 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough;...
    Insp 8.269 17 [The intellect's] supplies are found without much thought as to studies.
    Aris 10.45 22 [The blood royal] obtains service, gifts, supplies, furtherance of all kinds from the love and joy of those who feel themselves honored by the service they render.
    Trag 12.416 10 Analogous supplies are made to those individuals whose character leads them to vast exertions of body and mind.

supplies, v. (14)

    MR 1.238 16 A man who supplies his own want, who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
    UGM 4.12 9 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the poles of the earth. This quasi omnipresence supplies the imbecility of our condition.
    MoS 4.175 10 ...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.
    ShP 4.194 5 [Popular tradition]...supplies a foundation for [the poet's] edifice...
    ShP 4.196 10 Shakspeare knew that tradition supplies a better fable than any invention can.
    ShP 4.201 8 Every book supplies its time with one good word;...
    ET1 5.17 24 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat, and supplies his wants to the next house.
    Elo1 7.81 25 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...supplies the imagination with fine materials.
    DL 7.105 6 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education...
    Boks 7.201 1 Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners is an accessory to Plato, and supplies traits of Socrates;...
    SA 8.95 8 Conversation...supplies all deficiencies.
    Aris 10.44 25 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series.
    SovE 10.208 13 ...natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds.
    Bost 12.196 9 ...New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West.

supply, n. (17)

    YA 1.384 27 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords...whose government would be... mediation between want and supply.
    SR 2.87 8 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the soldier should receive his supply of corn...and bake his bread himself.
    MoS 4.183 24 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance, between the demand and supply of power...
    ET13 5.226 2 The statesman knows that the religious element will not fail, any more than the supply of fibrine and chyle;...
    F 6.37 9 The long sleep...is regulated by the supply of food proper to the animal.
    Wth 6.94 15 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents, copper-miners... is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.
    Wth 6.94 18 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents...fire-annihilators, etc., is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.
    Wth 6.105 22 The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply.
    Wth 6.106 9 The level of the sea is not more surely kept than is the equilibrium of value in society by the demand and supply;...
    OA 7.324 23 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.
    QO 8.179 22 ...the practical activity is a river of supply;...
    Aris 10.43 5 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which...generates the habit of relying on a supply of power for all extraordinary exertions.
    Chr2 10.102 4 ...the perpetual supply of new genius shocks us with thrills of life...
    Thor 10.455 14 [Thoreau] said,-I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man. I had commonly a supply of these.
    HDC 11.64 16 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    War 11.152 1 ...in the infancy of society, when a thin population and improvidence make the supply of food and of shelter insufficient and very precarious...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    Bost 12.187 21 Demand and supply run [in Paris] into every invisible and unnamed province of whim and passion.

supply, v. (41)

    Nat 1.3 12 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life...invite us, by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    YA 1.381 3 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted,-the duty to instruct the ignorant, to supply the poor with work and with good guidance.
    Hist 2.29 14 [Each considerate person] learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition.
    SL 2.141 24 By doing his work [a man] makes the need felt which he can supply...
    Chr1 3.93 21 [The natural merchant] too believes that none can supply him...
    Mrs1 3.126 6 Fortune will not supply to every generation one of these well-appointed knights...
    Gts 3.160 22 ...as it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors, so it is always a great satisfaction to supply these first wants.
    NER 3.276 24 ...[those who reject us]...supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit...
    UGM 4.5 17 Our affection towards others creates a sort of vantage or purchase which nothing will supply.
    UGM 4.32 22 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals. We must infer much, and supply many chasms in the record.
    GoW 4.264 15 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers...who are impelled to exhibit the facts in order, and so to supply the axis on which the frame of things turns.
    ET9 5.152 3 George of Cappadocia...was a low parasite who got a lucrative contract to supply the army with bacon.
    ET10 5.170 5 ...the evil [of England's wealth] requires a deeper cure, which time and a simpler social organization must supply.
    Wth 6.118 21 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
    Bhr 6.192 4 [The boy in earlier novels] was in want of a wife and a castle, and the object of the story was to supply him with one or both.
    CbW 6.260 15 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect in my address...which puts me a little out of the ring...
    CbW 6.260 18 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes, which puts me a little out of the ring: supply it, and let me be like the rest...
    CbW 6.264 9 Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches...
    Farm 7.143 7 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.
    WD 7.157 11 Machines can only second, not supply, [man's] unaided senses.
    Boks 7.197 15 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...is the true and adequate germ of Greece, and occupies that place as history which nothing can supply.
    Clbs 7.225 16 ...our tonics, our luxuries, are force-pumps which exhaust the strength they pretend to supply;...
    OA 7.325 7 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable. Later, the interiors of mind and heart open, and supply grander motives.
    SA 8.96 13 A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse...
    QO 8.184 13 ...[the Earl of Strafford] drew all that ran in the author more strictly, and might better judge of his own wants to supply them.
    Aris 10.43 10 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it;...
    PerF 10.69 15 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature.
    SovE 10.204 14 ...cordage and machinery never supply the place of life.
    MoL 10.245 12 ...those who would check and guide have a dreary feeling that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no offset to supply their place.
    Plu 10.306 22 ...the danger is that, when the Muse is wanting, the student is prone to supply its place with microscopic subtleties and logomachy.
    Plu 10.315 20 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother; 't is...a gift nothing can supply;...
    EzRy 10.392 27 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was...the observation of such facts as country life for nearly a century could supply.
    MMEm 10.432 21 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood; a blessing which nothing else in education could supply.
    Thor 10.453 10 ...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world. It would cost him less time to supply his wants than another.
    HDC 11.56 21 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay...found the way to the West Indies...and the country people speedily learned to supply themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.
    HDC 11.78 16 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...
    JBB 11.268 1 [John Brown's] father...became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...
    Wom 11.411 27 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./
    CPL 11.503 18 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library. His companions are few: at the moment, he has none: but, year by year, these silent friends supply their place.
    MLit 12.327 5 It is all design with [Goethe], just...analogies, allusion, illustration, which knowledge and correct thinking supply;...
    EurB 12.365 8 Wordsworth's nature or character has had all the time it needed in order to make its mark and supply the want of talent.

supplying, adj. (1)

    II 12.85 16 Each must be rich, but not only in money or lands, he may have instead the riches of riches,-creative supplying power.

supplying, v. (4)

    Con 1.317 17 I want the necessity of supplying my own wants.
    Hist 2.24 25 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances.
    Civ 7.25 4 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour,--thereby supplying all the ship's want.
    Thor 10.455 17 [Thoreau] chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

support, n. (36)

    Nat 1.12 16 The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight...
    Con 1.301 2 In nature, each of these elements [Conservatism and Reform] being always present, each theory has a natural support.
    Con 1.321 16 ...if priest and church-member should fail...the very innholders and landlords of the county, would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
    YA 1.369 20 ...he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger... values [the land] less.
    YA 1.385 1 How gladly would each citizen pay a commission for the support and continuation of good guidance.
    YA 1.394 2 In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the support of the aristocracy...there is a grain of sweetness in the tyranny;...
    SR 2.85 7 [The civilized man] is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle.
    SR 2.89 3 It is only as a man puts off all foreign support...that I see him to be strong...
    Pol1 3.209 11 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...parties which...can easily change ground with each other in the support of many of their measures.
    NMW 4.244 15 ...[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from [his generals] a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    GoW 4.280 22 In England and in America there is a respect for talent; if it is exerted in support of any ascertained or intelligible interest or party...the public is satisfied.
    ET11 5.172 20 The estates, names and manners of the [English] nobles flatter the fancy of the people and conciliate the necessary support.
    ET13 5.219 20 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself thus to men of more taste than activity, the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to its support...
    ET19 5.311 19 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons...to acts of kindness and warm and stanch support...
    F 6.30 9 ...the hero...has the world under him for root and support.
    Wth 6.104 9 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench, and his decisions be less upright; he has lost so much support and constraint, which all need;...
    Bhr 6.183 12 Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
    Wsp 6.237 25 Honor...him who, by sympathy with the invisible and real, finds support in labor, instead of praise;...
    Cour 7.260 21 Nature has charged every one with his own defence as with his own support...
    Chr2 10.119 8 ...this rude stripping [the infant soul] of all support drives him inward, and he finds himself unhurt;...
    SovE 10.199 18 When I talked with an ardent missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world.
    SovE 10.210 2 Here is contribution...of political support to oppressed parties.
    GSt 10.503 24 [George Stearns] gave to each [patriotic measure] his strong support...
    GSt 10.505 7 Without such vital support as [George Stearns], and such as he, brought to the government, where would that government be?
    HDC 11.57 9 ...Concord...in 1653, subscribed a sum for several years to the support of Harvard College.
    EWI 11.129 6 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    FSLC 11.197 24 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLN 11.241 21 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...
    AsSu 11.249 22 [Charles Sumner]...has stood for the North, a little in advance of all the North, and therefore without adequate support.
    AKan 11.260 27 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery.
    EPro 11.320 24 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...all rally to its support.
    SMC 11.374 12 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry...
    Wom 11.419 1 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this: that...they are asked for by people who intellectually seek them, but who have not the support or sympathy of the truest women;...
    FRep 11.520 7 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
    Trag 12.411 11 [Tragedy] is full of illusion. As it comes, it has its support.
    Trag 12.411 14 The spirit...finds its own support in any condition...

support, v. (11)

    SR 2.73 4 I shall endeavor...to support my family...
    NMW 4.236 25 My power would fall, were I not to support it by new achievements [said Napoleon].
    NMW 4.249 25 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
    ET7 5.120 8 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures, but only games, fireworks and spectacles,--no prosperity could support it;...
    ET10 5.160 22 ...there is wealth enough in England to support the entire population in idleness for one year.
    Bty 6.291 5 ...our taste in building...refuses pilasters and columns that support nothing...
    PC 8.226 1 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man. Cube this value by the meeting of two such...who understand and support each other, and you have organized victory.
    MoL 10.246 1 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support.
    PLT 12.15 25 Not having enough [thought] to support all the powers of a race, [Nature] thins all her stock...
    Milt1 12.273 3 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions;...
    Trag 12.411 17 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

supported, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.336 26 Nature never moves by jumps, but always in steady and supported advances.

supported, v. (11)

    Hist 2.18 27 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth, supported on either side by wide-stretched symmetrical wings.
    SR 2.85 6 [The civilized man] is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle.
    Mrs1 3.145 24 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...if a woman gave him pleasure, he supported her in pain...
    Gts 3.162 26 I am sorry...when a gift comes from such as do not know my spirit, and so the act is not supported;...
    NR 3.226 23 ...the power which drew my respect is not supported by the total symphony of [a man's] talents.
    ET5 5.101 18 The charm in Nelson's history is the unselfish greatness, the assurance of being supported to the uttermost by those whom he supports to the uttermost.
    ET18 5.301 20 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations. It is one of their fixed ideas, and wrathfully supported by their laws...
    Wth 6.111 1 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported.
    EWI 11.107 3 ...(tracing the subject to natural principles, the claim of slavery never can be supported).
    EWI 11.109 7 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt...
    EWI 11.125 7 The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties.

supporters, n. (3)

    UGM 4.23 10 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and supporters of his power.
    Bty 6.291 6 ...our taste in building...allows the real supporters of the house honestly to show themselves.
    AKan 11.255 22 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his supporters in the Senate...speak out, and declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.

supporting, v. (1)

    NER 3.261 24 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and to conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

supports, v. (2)

    ET5 5.101 19 The charm in Nelson's history is the unselfish greatness, the assurance of being supported to the uttermost by those whom he supports to the uttermost.
    PPo 8.251 10 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better...

suppose, v. (83)

    Nat 1.18 8 The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year.
    Nat 1.38 19 The foolish...suppose every man is as every other man.
    AmS 1.92 11 ...we should suppose some preestablished harmony...
    MR 1.227 20 ...I suppose none of my auditors will deny that we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
    MR 1.234 6 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...and he is to get his living in the world;...
    MR 1.245 13 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we think?-Perhaps with his own hands. Suppose he collects or makes them ill;-yet he has learned their lesson.
    LT 1.275 8 Do you suppose that the reforms which are preparing will be as superficial as those we know?
    SR 2.57 4 Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?
    SR 2.58 5 I suppose no man can violate his nature.
    SR 2.63 3 Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous;...
    Cir 2.315 12 I suppose that the highest prudence is the lowest prudence.
    Chr1 3.94 24 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...
    Nat2 3.177 6 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity:...he carries a fowling-piece or a fishing-rod. I suppose this shame must have a good reason.
    Nat2 3.177 11 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
    Nat2 3.193 19 Must we not suppose somewhere in the universe a slight treachery and derision?
    NER 3.260 12 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition that the human spirit is equal to all emergencies alone...
    NER 3.279 3 I suppose considerate observers...will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    MoS 4.176 21 As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger periods.
    GoW 4.278 1 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...
    GoW 4.288 7 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture.
    ET1 5.4 6 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe...it was mainly the attraction of these persons.
    ET1 5.9 5 I suppose I teased [Landor] about recent writers...
    ET4 5.65 9 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.
    ET4 5.71 8 I suppose the dogs and horses [in England] must be thanked for the fact that the men have muscles almost as tough and supple as their own.
    ET4 5.71 23 Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England] like the company of horses better than the company of professors. I suppose the horses are better company for them.
    ET5 5.89 22 [The Englishman] would rather not do anything at all than not do it well. I suppose no people have such thoroughness;...
    ET8 5.128 5 I suppose [Englishmen's] gravity of demeanor and their few words have obtained this reputation [for gloominess].
    ET8 5.128 19 ...I suppose never nation built their party-walls so thick, or their garden-fences so high [as the English].
    ET8 5.138 5 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman...
    ET9 5.146 1 I suppose that all men of English blood in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are not French natives.
    ET10 5.168 5 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling...
    ET11 5.172 11 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these sumptuous piles, and I suppose it is the sentiment of every traveller...It was well to come ere these were gone.
    ET11 5.194 7 I suppose...that a feeling of self-respect is driving cultivated men out of this society [of English noblemen]...
    ET12 5.200 9 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals, which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages...
    ET14 5.238 22 [Bacon's] centuries of observations on useful science, and his experiments, I suppose, were worth nothing.
    ET16 5.283 18 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable. I suppose there were as good men a thousand years ago.
    F 6.12 17 ...I suppose...Mr. Frauenhofer...might come to distinguish in the embryo...this is a Whig...
    F 6.38 23 Do you suppose [the new-born man] can be estimated by his weight in pounds...
    Ctr 6.145 25 Do you suppose there is any country where they do not scald milk-pans...
    CbW 6.250 7 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians;...
    CbW 6.259 3 A man of sense and energy...said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones. And this is the reason, I suppose, why, as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared...
    Bty 6.293 11 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.
    Bty 6.295 9 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit; and I suppose it may continue to be lugged about unchanged for a century.
    Elo1 7.80 24 ...each man inquires if any orator can change his convictions. But does any one suppose himself to be quite impregnable?
    WD 7.178 12 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    Clbs 7.230 25 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    OA 7.334 1 E[dward] said [to John Adams]: I suppose, sir, you would not have taken [Mr. Lechmere's] place, even to walk as well as he.
    PI 8.6 21 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    SA 8.89 19 I suppose I give the experience of many when I give my own.
    Imtl 8.329 2 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung...
    Dem1 10.24 14 ...suppose a diligent collection and study of these occult facts were made, they are merely physiological, semi-medical...
    PerF 10.80 19 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played loud enough, we here should have beat time...
    Supl 10.163 19 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum...
    Supl 10.169 3 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which Schlegel gives,-In good prose, every word is underscored; which, I suppose, means, Never italicize.
    MoL 10.246 4 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. ... I suppose posterity will ask how many rats and mice it will feed.
    Plu 10.302 16 ...I suppose [Plutarch] has a hundred readers where Thucydides finds one...
    LLNE 10.342 27 I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect...
    LLNE 10.368 21 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure.
    SlHr 10.447 15 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion...
    Carl 10.489 10 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    LS 11.6 24 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present.
    LS 11.14 19 ...it is contrary to all reason to suppose that God should work a miracle to convey information that could so easily be got by natural means.
    EWI 11.141 19 It was the sarcasm of Montesquieu, it would not do to suppose that negroes were men, lest it should turn out that whites were not;...
    FSLC 11.203 22 I suppose [Webster's] pledges were not quite natural to him.
    FSLC 11.205 26 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself.
    FSLC 11.206 3 Under the Union I suppose the fact to be that there are really two nations, the North and the South.
    FSLN 11.229 18 ...I suppose that liberty is an accurate index, in men and nations, of general progress.
    FSLN 11.237 26 I suppose in general this is allowed, that if you have a nice question of right and wrong, you would not go with it to Louis Napoleon...
    SMC 11.369 22 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. ... There was no place nearer than Baltimore where we could have got a coffin, and I suppose it was eighty miles there.
    Wom 11.420 16 On the questions that are important...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    SHC 11.432 17 I suppose all of us will readily admit the value of parks and cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...
    Shak1 11.453 2 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent...
    ChiE 11.471 1 Mr. Mayor: I suppose we are all of one opinion on this remarkable occasion of meeting the embassy sent from the oldest Empire in the world to the youngest Republic.
    PLT 12.20 11 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    PLT 12.20 13 It is necessary to suppose that every hose in Nature fits every hydrant;...
    II 12.83 26 We must suppose life to [men slow in finding their vocation] is a kind of hibernation...
    Mem 12.102 14 ...I suppose I speak the sense of most thoughtful men when I say, I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    CInt 12.121 12 Do you suppose that the thunderbolt falls short?
    Bost 12.205 25 ...there was never, I suppose, a more rapid expansion in population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens' consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was exhibited here.
    MAng1 12.233 12 ...let no man suppose that the images which [Michelangelo's] spirit worshipped were mere transcripts of external grace...
    ACri 12.299 22 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these...
    ACri 12.302 15 [Channing] complains of Nature,-too many leaves, too windy and grassy, and I suppose the birds are too feathery and the horses too leggy.
    AgMs 12.360 25 The account [in the Agricultural Survey] of the maple sugar,-that is very good and entertaining, and, I suppose, true.

supposed, adj. (12)

    Con 1.313 2 ...it might temper your indignation at the supposed wrong which society has done you, to keep the question before you, how society got into this predicament?
    NER 3.271 5 Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a supposed necessity...
    PI 8.4 20 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements (the supposed little cubes or prisms of which all matter was built up), we should...find...spherules of force.
    QO 8.180 26 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne and Bayle will have a key to many supposed originalities.
    Grts 8.308 23 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will...lose themselves in misreporting the supposed experience of other people.
    Dem1 10.17 1 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Prch 10.234 13 The supposed embarrassments to young clergymen exist only to feeble wills.
    LLNE 10.342 17 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some movement in literature, philosophy and religion, of which design the supposed conspirators were quite innocent;...
    GSt 10.503 19 ...there are few men with real or supposed influence, North or South, with whom [George Stearns] has not at some time communicated.
    War 11.168 12 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    FSLC 11.191 16 Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLN 11.219 26 In ordinary, the supposed sense of [Senators'] district and State is their guide...

supposed, adv. (1)

    LE 1.167 7 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature.

supposed, v. (25)

    LE 1.160 21 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were the...fruit of a cumulative culture...were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    MN 1.211 6 [A poet] was supposed to be the mouth of a divine wisdom.
    LT 1.263 16 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston, who supposed that our people were identified with their religious denominations, by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    YA 1.366 13 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared...in men supposed to be absorbed in business...
    Hsm1 2.251 16 ...every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else.
    Cir 2.311 2 O, what truths profound and executable only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!
    Chr1 3.95 7 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available to break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two of iron ring?
    Mrs1 3.143 10 ...it is not to be supposed that men have agreed to be the dupes of anything preposterous;...
    ET1 5.11 7 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian. Yes, he said, I supposed so;...
    ET16 5.282 21 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world...
    QO 8.181 16 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...
    LLNE 10.327 1 There is an universal resistance to ties and ligaments once supposed essential to civil society.
    HDC 11.75 24 [the minute-men] supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle...
    War 11.157 23 The increase of civility has abolished the use of poison and of torture, once supposed as necessary as navies now.
    AKan 11.260 18 Is it to be supposed that there are no men in Carolina who dissent from the popular sentiment now reigning there?
    FRO1 11.477 3 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...
    FRO1 11.477 7 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...and I supposed myself no longer subject to your call when I saw this house.
    CInt 12.122 7 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst...lectures, poets, libraries, newspapers, and other aids supposed intellectual, are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
    MAng1 12.229 17 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the worshippers of the golden calf.
    MAng1 12.237 11 As will be supposed, [Michelangelo] had a passion for the country...
    MAng1 12.239 2 It has been supposed that artists more than others are liable to this defect [lack of appreciation of the talents of others].
    Milt1 12.274 7 ...by great knowledge, and by religion, [Milton] would reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have descended.
    ACri 12.301 5 I passed at one time through a place called New City, then supposed...to be destined to greatness.
    EurB 12.374 25 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature, supposed to be the natural fruit and expression of the age.
    Let 12.402 18 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit enough.

supposes, v. (6)

    Nat 1.44 20 Every universal truth which we express in words, implies or supposes every other truth.
    SR 2.77 22 [Prayer as a means to effect a private end] supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.
    Cir 2.306 10 Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood;...
    Mrs1 3.122 23 ...our words intimate well enough the popular feeling that the appearance supposes a substance.
    Mrs1 3.146 27 The theory of society supposes the existence and sovereignty of these [natural aristocrats].
    MoS 4.171 2 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society...

supposing, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.87 7 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words... supposing cases...

suppress, v. (13)

    NER 3.284 15 Suppress for a few days your criticism on the insufficiency of this or that teacher or experimenter...
    ShP 4.191 18 The court [in Shakespeare's time] took offence easily at political allusions and attempted to suppress [dramatic entertainments].
    ShP 4.191 21 ...the religious among the Anglican church, would suppress [dramatic entertainments].
    ShP 4.191 26 ...we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...
    ShP 4.192 2 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
    Dem1 10.25 2 Men who had never wondered at anything...have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.
    Aris 10.53 23 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
    Chr2 10.109 19 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they whould not be able to suppress a feeling of mortification, and would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Prch 10.224 9 ...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is to suppress this impertinent surface-action...
    Plu 10.301 6 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is forced to suppress more than he recounts...
    HDC 11.71 15 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety, to suppress all riots, tumults, and disorders in said town...
    FSLC 11.194 14 You can commit no crime, for [men] are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it; and unless you can suppress the newspaper, pass a law against book-shops, gag the English tongue in America, all short of this is futile.
    SMC 11.376 10 ...In the above Address I have been compelled to suppress more details of personal interest than I have used.

suppressed, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.120 6 ...every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

suppressed, v. (6)

    Edc1 10.157 19 If you have a taste which you have suppressed because it is not shared by those about you, tell [your pupils] that.
    FSLN 11.228 8 [Webster] told the people at Boston...that agitation of the subject of Slavery must be suppressed.
    TPar 11.288 1 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    ACiv 11.300 10 The journals have not suppressed the extent of the calamity.
    PLT 12.9 2 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where the manners and estimate of the world have...effectually suppressed this overweening self-conceit.
    Bost 12.200 15 There are always men ready for adventures-more in an over-governed, over-peopled country, where all the professions are crowded and all character suppressed...

suppressing, v. (1)

    ET16 5.283 22 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors...

suppression, n. (9)

    ET1 5.5 14 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
    ET14 5.255 17 In the absence...of the pure love of knowledge and the surrender to nature, there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...
    PC 8.209 1 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the efforts for the suppression of intemperance;...
    Chr2 10.121 1 [Character] indulges no enmity against any, knowing, with Prahlada that the suppression of malignant feeling is itself a reward.
    War 11.174 1 [The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own gate, rather than consent to...the suppression of his conviction.
    FSLC 11.198 24 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification, it was a suppression...
    Scot 11.464 16 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required, so much suppression of details and leaping to the event, [Scott] would keep and use...
    PLT 12.22 8 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations...
    WSL 12.347 27 [Landor] is a master of condensation and suppression...

supremacy, n. (7)

    Pol1 3.221 8 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love. All those who have pretended this design...have admitted in some manner the supremacy of the bad State.
    MoS 4.183 6 The final solution in which skepticism is lost, is in the moral sentiment, which never forfeits its supremacy.
    Boks 7.199 2 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see...the supremacy of truth and the religious sentiment, he shall be contented also.
    PI 8.64 1 The poetic gift we want, as the health and supremacy of man...
    Chr2 10.103 8 [The moral sentiment] affirms not only its truth, but its supremacy.
    Chr2 10.121 24 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    Schr 10.287 21 I invite you [scholars]...to true and natural supremacy...

supreme, adj. (39)

    DSA 1.151 7 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...shall speak in the West also.
    LE 1.159 21 ...a complaisance...to the wisdom of antiquity, must not defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.
    MN 1.216 22 ...there are other examples of this total and supreme influence...
    LT 1.289 8 To a true scholar the attraction of...the passages of his experience, is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    Hist 2.6 3 ...all [laws] express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme, illimitable essence [the universal nature].
    SL 2.166 6 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...
    Chr1 3.100 26 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are good; for these announce the instant presence of supreme power.
    PPh 4.44 15 We are to account for the supreme elevation of this man [Plato] in the intellectual history of our race...
    PPh 4.49 21 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me.
    PPh 4.63 24 ...the supreme good is reality;...
    PPh 4.63 25 ...the supreme beauty is reality;...
    PPh 4.69 9 ...every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good.
    SwM 4.116 4 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur... which correspond so entirely to supreme and spiritual things that one would swear that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
    NMW 4.256 20 ...both parties [democrat and conservative] stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property...
    ET4 5.45 24 [The English] have...supreme endurance in war and in labor.
    ET5 5.80 12 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts...
    ET5 5.92 21 [The English] have...justified their occupancy of the centre of habitable land, by their supreme ability and cosmopolitan spirit.
    ET10 5.169 18 Such a wealth has England earned, ever new, bounteous and augmenting. But the question recurs, does she take the step beyond, namely to the wise use, in view of the supreme wealth of nations?
    ET12 5.208 2 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    ET14 5.244 1 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision...from one, as from multitudes of lives. Shakspeare is supreme in that, as in all the great mental energies.
    Pow 6.72 15 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement...
    Ill 6.321 2 That story of Thor...describes us, who are contending, amid these seeming trifles, with the supreme energies of nature.
    Civ 7.19 11 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment...
    Elo1 7.79 1 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that.
    Boks 7.218 12 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean...the sacred books of each nation, which express for each the supreme result of their experience.
    OA 7.328 19 ...age...finishes its works, which to every artist is a supreme pleasure.
    PI 8.65 25 The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond itself...
    PI 8.73 1 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.
    Elo2 8.125 11 That something which each man was created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you, and has a right to supreme attention so far.
    QO 8.204 5 We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
    Insp 8.282 26 [Herbert's] poem called The Forerunners also has supreme interest.
    Imtl 8.351 20 Brahma the supreme, whoever knows him obtains whatever he wishes.
    PerF 10.77 8 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources], constituting a supreme prudence.
    Plu 10.297 17 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets...a compend of all accepted traditions. And all this without any supreme intellectual gifts.
    Wom 11.413 10 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility.
    Wom 11.418 11 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events...
    Bost 12.201 9 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy the supreme fortune of the colony;...
    Milt1 12.254 11 [Milton] is identified in the mind...with the supreme interests of the human race.
    Milt1 12.279 2 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...a man whom labor or danger never deterred from whatever efforts a love of the supreme interests of man prompted.

Supreme Artist, n. (1)

    CW 12.173 10 Here [in the Academy Garden] I [Linnaeus] admire the wisdom of the Supreme Artist...

Supreme Being, n. (6)

    Nat 1.56 23 We...know that these are the thoughts of the Supreme Being.
    Nat 1.64 5 ...spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us...
    Hsm1 2.257 23 ...friends, angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
    SwM 4.140 6 The Hindoos have denominated the Supreme Being, the Internal Check.
    Art2 7.39 8 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have.
    HDC 11.86 21 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord].

Supreme Cause, n. (1)

    SR 2.70 15 Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause...

Supreme Court, n. (4)

    Elo1 7.87 18 ...[the court] read away piteously the decisions of the Supreme Court...
    OA 7.325 24 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court...
    EzRy 10.382 24 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...George Thatcher, Judge of the Supreme Court;...
    FSLN 11.233 13 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right...

Supreme Critic, n. (1)

    OS 2.268 18 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest...

Supreme Intellect, n. (2)

    QO 8.202 4 ...if the thinker...recognizes the perpetual suggestion of the Supreme Intellect, the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
    SovE 10.183 21 ...this self-help and self-creation [in plants and animals] proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form. 'T is the effort of God, of the Supreme Intellect, in the extremest frontier of his universe.

Supreme Intelligence, n. (1)

    Cour 7.277 8 If you accept your thoughts as inspirations from the Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties...

Supreme Mind, n. (2)

    Comp 2.106 10 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind;...
    OS 2.276 8 ...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works...

Supreme Ordainer, n. (1)

    PPh 4.56 22 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.

Supreme Power, n. (3)

    YA 1.390 22 It is for us to confide in the beneficent Supreme Power...
    Wsp 6.239 2 [The soul] asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
    WD 7.167 7 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that those ancient men, in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe, called him the Day...

Supreme Presence, n. (1)

    MN 1.222 27 The doctrine of this Supreme Presence is a cry of joy and exultation.

Supreme Reason, n. (1)

    PLT 12.50 20 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...

Supreme Spirit, n. (1)

    DSA 1.127 16 ...the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of...

Supreme Wisdom, n. (1)

    DSA 1.125 23 ...deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom.

supremely, adv. (1)

    Exp 3.73 10 This vigor is supremely great...

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