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ree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence. Milton.

Superior excellence; extraordinary excellence.

ompletes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. "My new accomplishment of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom…

The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.

bation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

Height of rank or excellence; superiority. Swift.

The quality of being angelic; excellence more than human.

A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence.

To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.

s). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel. The patriot's honors and the poet's bays. Trumbull.

A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

istance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement. I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 2 Cor. xi. 5.

Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." Addison.

Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming. He will do nothing that is beneath his high station. Atterbury.

To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel. The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered. Hooker.

mount exceeding or surpassing; proceeding to a greater degree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind. "Beyond expectation." Barrow. Beyond any of the great men of my country. Sir P. Sidney. Beyond sea. (Law) See under Sea. -- To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything els…

To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Ps. ciii. 1.

Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.

ci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.