in Theology, persons who hold that God, without any regard to the good or evil works of men, has resolved, by an eternal decree, supra- lapsum, antecedently to any knowledge of the fall of Adam, and independently of it, to save some and to damn others; or, in other words, that God intended to glorify his justice in the condemnation of some, as well as his mercy in the salvation of others; and for that purpose decreed that Adam should necessarily fall, and by that fall bring himself and all his offspring into a state of everlasting condemnation.

These are also called antelapsaries, and are opposed to sublapsaries and infralapsaries.

According to the supralapsarians, the object of pre- destination is, homo creabilis et habilis; and, according to the sublapsarians and infralapsarians, homo creatus et loquens.