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adj. prenom. 1. advanced in complexity or elaboration; as, higher mathematics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to education beyond the secondary level; as, higher education; higher learning. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism.

The comparison of the Hebrew and Greek texts . . . introduces us to a series of questions affecting the composition, the editing, and the collection of the sacred books. This class of questions forms the special subject of the branch of critical science which is usually distinguished from the verbal criticism of the text by the name of higher, or historical, criticism. W. Robertson Smith. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Rising higher; ascending. [ 1913 Webster ]

In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Education) A certificate awarded for completing a course of vocational education beyond secondary school, preparing the student for a career in business or certain practical arts. It is a term used in the United Kingdom. [ United Kingdom ] [ PJC ]

n. (Computers) A computer programming language with an instruction set allowing one instruction to code for several assembly language instructions. The aggregation of several assembly-language instructions into one instruction allows much greater efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs are now written in some higher programming language, such as BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++, PROLOG, or JAVA. [ PJC ]

adj. having a rank above that of another.
Syn. -- ranking(prenominal), superior. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. See New thought, below. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism.

The comparison of the Hebrew and Greek texts . . . introduces us to a series of questions affecting the composition, the editing, and the collection of the sacred books. This class of questions forms the special subject of the branch of critical science which is usually distinguished from the verbal criticism of the text by the name of higher, or historical, criticism. W. Robertson Smith. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Rising higher; ascending. [ 1913 Webster ]

In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Education) A certificate awarded for completing a course of vocational education beyond secondary school, preparing the student for a career in business or certain practical arts. It is a term used in the United Kingdom. [ United Kingdom ] [ PJC ]

n. (Computers) A computer programming language with an instruction set allowing one instruction to code for several assembly language instructions. The aggregation of several assembly-language instructions into one instruction allows much greater efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs are now written in some higher programming language, such as BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++, PROLOG, or JAVA. [ PJC ]

adj. having a rank above that of another.
Syn. -- ranking(prenominal), superior. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. See New thought, below. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]