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n authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power. He that is the supreme King of kings. Shak.

In a supreme manner.

A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.

ho had acceded to the throne in the year 1461. T. Warton. If Frederick had acceded to the supreme power. Morley.

The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell.

The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

Of supreme chemical powers. [R.] "The archchemic sun." Milton.

A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy. The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.

l thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789. -- Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same office which an indictment does in a common criminal case. -- Articles of war, rules and regulations, fix…

The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being. Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. R. Hall. Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. Shipley.

One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.

to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.

royal court. Ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities. Landor. Aulic council (Hist.), a supreme court of the old German empire; properly the supreme court of the emperor. It ceased at the death of each emperor, and was renewed by his successor. It became extinct when the German empire was dissolved, in 1806. The term…

Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.

Nur, who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.

To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow.

tical prince who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college. The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved. Pope Leo IX.

Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief Justice of the United States, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, and Highest judicial officer of the republic.