Sū/per-ōr/di-nā/tion, n.

n. [Prefix super and ordination.] The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied, as the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.

After the death of Augustine, Laurentius, a Roman, succeeded him, whom Augustine, in his lifetime, not only designed for, but ordained in, that place. . . . Such a superordination in such cases was canonical, it being a tradition that St. Peter in like manner consecrated Clement his successor in the church of Rome. Fuller.