ABOVE, TO BE ABOVE Copy link • ABOVE, TO BE ABOVETo be better, praestare. To stand out from, exstare (ex aqua, etc.). To be above doing anything, non eum esae qui aliquid faciat. You ought to be above making pleasure your chief good, temperantior esse debea, quam qui summum bonum in voluptate ponas. The water is hardly above the knees, aqua vix genua superat, (Liv.). Let all be fair and above-board, ne qua fraus, ne quis dolus adhibeatur (Cic.); nihil sitnon apertum atque simplex.