Excelʹsior.
Aim at higher things still. It is the motto of the United States, and has been made popular by Longfellow’s poem so named. Used also as the synonym of super-excellent.ʹ
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.