================================================ Subject: Re: FINE From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Sun 18 Nov 2001 03:27:05 -0500 ================================================ Keith P. Mears wrote: >SUPERIOR INTELLECT? > Broken down superior means: cf. Supreme. 1. More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image. 2. Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility. 3. Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery. 4. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to. There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. --Spectator. 5. More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species. 6. (Bot.) (a) Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it. (b) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior. (c) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle. Superior conjunction, Superior planets, etc. See Conjunction, Planet, etc. Superior figure, Superior letter (Print.), a figure or letter printed above the line, as a reference to a note or an index of a power, etc; as, in x^2 + y^n, 2 is a superior figure, n a superior letter. Cf. Inferior figure, under Inferior. Superior Su*pe"ri*or, n. 1. One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English. 2. (Eccl.) The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like. Then intellect is described as: intellectum, to understand: cf. intellect. See Intelligent. (Metaph.) The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding. Good luck with discovering the true benefits of having either of these two qualities. Especially when they are combined into two consecutively linked entities. Your title is not endangered. > > >Oh my god, I think I just ruptured something from laughing so hard! >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" >To: >Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 2:17 AM >Subject: Re: FINE > > >>I'm staying. But it is a shame that you even have to use a parser to >>figure out what others are trying to say. >> >>Sorry about your brain being so poorly equiped to handle a superior >>intellect. >> >>Jim >> > >To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: >http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > -- Why use Windows, since there is a door? (By fachat@galileo.rhein-neckar.de, Andre Fachat) To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp