資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Supralapsarian \Su`pra*lap*sa"ri*an\, n. [Supra- + lapse: cf. F.
   supralapsaire.] (Eccl. Hist.)
   One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's
   decree of election determined that man should fall, in order
   that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the
   redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation
   being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after
   or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. {Infralapsarian}.

Supralapsarian \Su`pra*lap*sa"ri*an\, a.
   Of or pertaining to the Supralapsarians, or their doctrine.