Su`pra*vul"gar (?), a. Being above the vulgar or common people. [R.]
Collier.
Su*prem"a*cy (?), n. [Cf. F. suprématie. See Supreme.] The state of
being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme
authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament.
The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was
restored to its supremacy over spiritual men and causes.
Blackstone.
Oath supremacy, an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of the
sovereign in spiritual affairs, and renounced or abjures the supremacy
of the pope in ecclesiastical or temporal affairs. [Eng.] Brande & C.
Su*preme" (?), a. [L. supremus, superlative of superus that is above,
upper, fr. super above: cf. F. suprême. See Super-, and cf. Sum.] 1.
Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority,
government, or power.
He that is the supreme King of kings.
Shak.
2. Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist
possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory;
supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.
Each would be supreme within its own sphere, and those spheres
could not but clash.
De Quincey.