Recommendation in Murray’s Gram., ii, 306.  “The pronoun it is the most universal of all the pronouns.”—­Cutler’s Gram., p. 66.  Thus much for one half of this critic’s twenty-two “superlatives.”  The rest are simply adjectives that are not susceptible of comparison:  they are not “superlatives” at all.  A man might just as well teach, that good is a superlative, and not susceptible of comparison, because “there is none good but one.”

OBS. 13.—­Pronominal adjectives, when their nouns are expressed, simply relate to them, and have no modifications:  except this and that, which form the plurals these and those; and much, many, and a few others, which are compared.  Examples:  “Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?”—­Matt., xiii, 54.  “But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?”—­1 Cor., xv, 35.  “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”—­Ib., 45.  So, when one pronominal adjective “precedes an other, the former must be taken simply as an adjective;” as,

   “Those suns are set.  O rise some other such!”
        —­Cowper’s Task, B. ii, l. 252.

OBS. 14.—­Pronominal adjectives, when their nouns are not expressed, may be parsed as representing them in person, number, gender, and case; but those who prefer it, may supply the ellipsis, and parse the adjective, simply as an adjective.  Example:  “He threatens many, who injures one.”—­Kames.  Here it may be said, “Many is a pronominal adjective, meaning many persons; of the third person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case.”  Or those who will take the word simply as an adjective, may say, “Many is a pronominal adjective, of the positive degree, compared many, more, most, and relating to persons understood.”  And so of “one,” which represents, or relates to, person understood.  Either say, “One is a pronominal adjective, not compared,” and give the three definitions accordingly; or else say, “One is a pronominal adjective, relating to person understood; of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and objective case,” and give the six definitions accordingly.

OBS. 15.—­Elder for older, and eldest for oldest, are still frequently used; though the ancient positive, eld for old, is now obsolete.  Hence some have represented old as having a two-fold comparison; and have placed it, not very properly, among the irregular adjectives.  The comparatives elder and better, are often used as nouns; so are the Latin comparatives superior and inferior, interior and exterior, senior and junior,