supremum

[ suh-pree-muhm, soo- ]

noun

, Mathematics.

1. least upper bound.

Word History and Origins

Origin of supremum¹

< New Latin suprēmum, noun use of neuter of Latin suprēmus supreme

Example Sentences

Hymnus decantatus tibi jam viventi, Erit lorica protectionis populis; In die judicii te comitabuntur Hiberni ad supremum judicem.

From Project Gutenberg

While the former tractate propounds the supremum magisterium of the Church, as holding sovereign power over lands and seas, souls and bodies, in the last Schema this supreme magisterium crops out in the person of Pius ix., who now enters into the possession of the supreme dominion and powers marked out for him in the dogmatic chart, if we can speak of any marking out when, in principle, everything is laid claim to, and the master himself alone and conclusively draws the line of demarcation where he chooses.

From Project Gutenberg

“De ipsâ agendi normâ judicium, quatenus de morum honestate, de licito vel illicito statuendum est pro civili societate publicisque negotiis, ad supremum Ecclesiæ magisterium pertinet.”

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Each is itself an ultimate genus, a genus supremum.

From Project Gutenberg

Ontology and the Accident-Modes of Being.—Under the ultimate category or genus supremum of Substance experience reveals to us two broadly distinct sub-classes: corporeal substances, “bodies” or “material” things, and spiritual substances or “spirits”.

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