单词 | meliority |
释义 | meliority|miːlɪˈɒrɪtɪ| [ad. med.L. meliōritās, f. L. meliōr-, melior better: see -ity.] The quality or condition of being better; superiority.
1578Sidney Wanstead Play in Arcadia, etc. (1605) 574 [Pedant loq.] Either according to the penetrancie of their singing, or the melioritie of their functions, or lastly the superancy of their merits. 1597Bacon Coulers Good & Evill No. 1 So that this couler of melioritie and preheminence is oft a signe of eneruation and weakenesse. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. ii. xi. 154 This meliority therefore, or betternesse above the Priests and Deacons, is ascribed to the Bishop. 1715Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. Contents *5 Some more particular Reflections, upon the Meliority of the Frame and Constitution of the Celestial Bodies. 1845A. Duncan Disc. 139 They may point out such a meliority of disposal, figure and size, as ever converts its essential properties to the most useful purposes. |

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