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Above
ABOVE', prep.
1. Literally, higher in place.
The fowls that fly above the earth. Gen 1:20.
2. Figuratively, superior in any respect.
I saw a light above the brightness of the Sun, Acts 26.
The price of a virtuous woman is above rubies, Prov 31.
3. More in number or quantity.
He was seen by above five hundred brethren at once, 1 Cor 25.
The weight is above a tun.
4. More in degree; in a greater degree.
Hannaniah feared God above many. Neh 7:2.
The serpent is cursed above all cattle. Gen 3.
5. Beyond; in excess.
In stripes above measure. 2 Cor 11.
God will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, 1 Cor 10:13.
6. Beyond; in a state to be unattainable; as things above comprehension.
7. Too proud for.
This man is above his business.
8. Too elevated in mind or rank; having too much dignity for; as
This man is above mean actions.
9. It is often used elliptically, for heaven, or the celestial regions.
Let not God regard it from above, Job 3.
The powers above.
10. In a book or writing, it denotes before or in a former place, as what has been said above; supra. This mode of speaking originated in the ancient manner of writing, on a strip of parchment, beginning at one end and proceeding to the other. The beginning was the upper end.
ABOVE', adv.
1. Overhead; in a higher place.
2. Before.
3. Chief in rank or power. Deu 28.
Above all is elliptical; above all considerations; chiefly; in preference to other things.
Above board; above the board or table; in open sight; without trick, concealment or deception. This expression is said by Johnson to be borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands under the table.
above appears in definitions for these words:
Abacus Above Acorn Acrasy Adansonia Aerometry Agio Agreeably Alleghany Aloft Alternate Altitude Angel Angel-fish Antedate Antler Apennines Apophthegm Apron Aqueduct Arcade Argent Ascend Ascendant Ascending Atheism Attentive Aurora Average B Bailpiece Bank Bar Baron Baronet Barren Batracian Bean-cod Beard Bed Below Beneath Beside Besides Beverage Beyond Bezantler Birds-eye Bissextile Blacksmith Bonnet Boot Bore Brain Brevet Broad-side Brow Canaliculate Caret Casting-vote Caudate Causey Chain Chamber Chamberlain Cheer Chert Circumscribe Circus Cloud-piercing Coffer Coffin Coleopteral Comfortable Concave Conduit Confessionary Consolidate Contend Corner Coronet Corpuscularian Counter Croup Crow Crystalography Damask Deadworks Decennial Deep-waisted Defraud Defy Depend Desk Dipping-needle Distinction Divine Dormar-window Doucine Duelist Dunnage Eagre Earl Earth Efficience Elevate Elevation Elm Elops Eminence Eminent Epact Equator Esteem Exalt Excellence Excepting Exchange Exponent Extancy Extant Exult Eyebrow Far Fellow-creature Fether Field Field-officer Fizgig Flint Forecastle Forecited Forhead-bald Fothering Fraction Freeze Frigate-built From Front Furnish Fustian Generate Generator Gentleman Gentlewoman Get Gilbertine Glorify Gorge Grain Grallic Grandfather Gravitate Grossbeak Hand Hang Hanging Heap Heart Heave Heaven Heptahexahedral High Highness Hight Hill Horoscope Housekeeping I Impend Implore Imputation Incomparable Indelible Inestimable Ink Invaluable Iridium Jade Jetty Jove Just L Lampas Larceny Loft Loom Looming Lothful Love Lusory Magnanimity Major Mansion Mediant Meek Model Monarchal Monecian Mortar Mortgager Mount Mountain Neither Nobility Noble Node Omentum Only Opposite Over Overcount Overgrow Overhead Overperch Overreach Overswell Overtop Par Parliament Passy-measure Peer Pendent Pensile Pentahexahedral Perfectness Philosophize Pile Pinnacle Pitman Point Polyander Polyandrian Potentate Potting Pre-eminence Pre-eminently Precipitance Prefer Preference Preferred Preferring Prelation Premunire Price Priest Principally Privilege Prominent Pyrometer Q Quaintness Quarter Rack Rail Random-shot Range Rare Rate Ravel Reckon Recorder Relief Rely Ring-bolt Rise Rising Rope Royal Run S Sacrilegious Saw-pit Sawyer Scale Scoop Scratches Sea Second Secondary Seduction Sensible Set Shelf Should Shut Sin Since Slate Sloop Soar Sofa Sole Sort Specialty Spell Spiritually Spot Squarrous Stack Stage Stall Starry Stay Stead Step-son Stepping-stone Stern Stilt Stoop Strife Strike Subdominant Success Sunrise Super Superadd Superadded Superadding Supercelestial Superciliary Supercilious Superessential Superexaltation Superfluitance Superfluitant Superhuman Superintellectual Superior Superlunar Supermundane Supernal Supernatant Superponderate Superposition Superscription Supersecular Supersede Superstratum Superterrene Superterrestrial Supertonic Supra Supra-axillary Supra-orbital Supraciliary Suprafoliaceous Supramundane Suprarenal Suprascapulary Supravulgar Sur Surbase Surbased Surmount Surmounting Surplice Suspend Suspension Swifter Tankard-turnep Tetrahexahedral Theatre Therewithal Thousand Throne Tie Timber Timber-head Top-mast Top-sail Topman Tort Tower Transcend Transcendence Transfiguration Tree Tridodecahedral Trioctahedral Triply-ribbed Tumbling Tumid Turret Under Unhoped Univoke Unvaluable Up Upland Upper Uprise Veneration Verticillate Wale Walk Weakly What Wind Wisdom Wish Yawn Yet
Abacus Above Acorn Acrasy Adansonia Aerometry Agio Agreeably Alleghany Aloft Alternate Altitude Angel Angel-fish Antedate Antler Apennines Apophthegm Apron Aqueduct Arcade Argent Ascend Ascendant Ascending Atheism Attentive Aurora Average B Bailpiece Bank Bar Baron Baronet Barren Batracian Bean-cod Beard Bed Below Beneath Beside Besides Beverage Beyond Bezantler Birds-eye Bissextile Blacksmith Bonnet Boot Bore Brain Brevet Broad-side Brow Canaliculate Caret Casting-vote Caudate Causey Chain Chamber Chamberlain Cheer Chert Circumscribe Circus Cloud-piercing Coffer Coffin Coleopteral Comfortable Concave Conduit Confessionary Consolidate Contend Corner Coronet Corpuscularian Counter Croup Crow Crystalography Damask Deadworks Decennial Deep-waisted Defraud Defy Depend Desk Dipping-needle Distinction Divine Dormar-window Doucine Duelist Dunnage Eagre Earl Earth Efficience Elevate Elevation Elm Elops Eminence Eminent Epact Equator Esteem Exalt Excellence Excepting Exchange Exponent Extancy Extant Exult Eyebrow Far Fellow-creature Fether Field Field-officer Fizgig Flint Forecastle Forecited Forhead-bald Fothering Fraction Freeze Frigate-built From Front Furnish Fustian Generate Generator Gentleman Gentlewoman Get Gilbertine Glorify Gorge Grain Grallic Grandfather Gravitate Grossbeak Hand Hang Hanging Heap Heart Heave Heaven Heptahexahedral High Highness Hight Hill Horoscope Housekeeping I Impend Implore Imputation Incomparable Indelible Inestimable Ink Invaluable Iridium Jade Jetty Jove Just L Lampas Larceny Loft Loom Looming Lothful Love Lusory Magnanimity Major Mansion Mediant Meek Model Monarchal Monecian Mortar Mortgager Mount Mountain Neither Nobility Noble Node Omentum Only Opposite Over Overcount Overgrow Overhead Overperch Overreach Overswell Overtop Par Parliament Passy-measure Peer Pendent Pensile Pentahexahedral Perfectness Philosophize Pile Pinnacle Pitman Point Polyander Polyandrian Potentate Potting Pre-eminence Pre-eminently Precipitance Prefer Preference Preferred Preferring Prelation Premunire Price Priest Principally Privilege Prominent Pyrometer Q Quaintness Quarter Rack Rail Random-shot Range Rare Rate Ravel Reckon Recorder Relief Rely Ring-bolt Rise Rising Rope Royal Run S Sacrilegious Saw-pit Sawyer Scale Scoop Scratches Sea Second Secondary Seduction Sensible Set Shelf Should Shut Sin Since Slate Sloop Soar Sofa Sole Sort Specialty Spell Spiritually Spot Squarrous Stack Stage Stall Starry Stay Stead Step-son Stepping-stone Stern Stilt Stoop Strife Strike Subdominant Success Sunrise Super Superadd Superadded Superadding Supercelestial Superciliary Supercilious Superessential Superexaltation Superfluitance Superfluitant Superhuman Superintellectual Superior Superlunar Supermundane Supernal Supernatant Superponderate Superposition Superscription Supersecular Supersede Superstratum Superterrene Superterrestrial Supertonic Supra Supra-axillary Supra-orbital Supraciliary Suprafoliaceous Supramundane Suprarenal Suprascapulary Supravulgar Sur Surbase Surbased Surmount Surmounting Surplice Suspend Suspension Swifter Tankard-turnep Tetrahexahedral Theatre Therewithal Thousand Throne Tie Timber Timber-head Top-mast Top-sail Topman Tort Tower Transcend Transcendence Transfiguration Tree Tridodecahedral Trioctahedral Triply-ribbed Tumbling Tumid Turret Under Unhoped Univoke Unvaluable Up Upland Upper Uprise Veneration Verticillate Wale Walk Weakly What Wind Wisdom Wish Yawn Yet
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