A first-rate ship of the line.
Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having at least 100 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 850–875, and weighing approximately 2,500 tons burthen.
Superb, exceptional; of the best sort; very high quality.
Of or pertaining to a paradigm.
Related as members of a substitution class.
A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence.