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Supernatural   /sˌupərnˈætʃərəl/   Listen
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Supernatural  adj.  Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous.
Synonyms: Preternatural. Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary course of things is preternatural; what is above or beyond the established laws of the universe is supernatural. The dark day which terrified all Europe nearly a century ago was preternatural; the resurrection of the dead is supernatural. "That form which the earth is under at present is preternatural, like a statue made and broken again." "Cures wrought by medicines are natural operations; but the miraculous ones wrought by Christ and his apostles were supernatural." "That is supernatural, whether it be, that is either not in the chain of natural cause and effect, or which acts on the chain of cause and effect in nature, from without the chain." "We must not view creation as supernatural, but we do look upon it as miraculous."
The supernatural, whatever is above and beyond the scope, or the established course, of the laws of nature. "Nature and the supernatural."






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"Supernatural" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the neighbouring town of Kahla were seized with the same spirit. These mystical ideas and phrases assumed strange forms of expression among the common people, who jumbled together in wild confusion the supernatural and the material. Carlstadt kept up also a secret correspondence ...
— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin

... quick, quick, a pen!"—the word passed from mouth to mouth. No more obstinacy, no more hesitation; all of them clamoured to sign, willing, even eager to yield to any demand that a man gifted with the supernatural power of taking out his eye and replacing it at pleasure, ...
— Sir Robert Hart - The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition • Juliet Bredon

... and without 'old doctrines'—trusting above all in the majesty of ennobled human nature. He was a veritable Humanist, the truest and greatest, who ever strove to raise the most essential part of human nature, man's soul and mind, yet by no mean supernatural, but by 'mean that ...
— Shakspere And Montaigne • Jacob Feis

... and white flowers, which those desirous of becoming werwolves sought from far and wide, some even coming from Siberia, and some from away down South as far as Astrakan. And the woods abounded not only in werwolves, but in all sorts of supernatural horrors—phantoms of the dead, i.e. (of murderers and suicides) Vice Elementals and Vagrarians, vampires and ghouls; no region in Russia boasted so many, and for this reason it was scrupulously avoided by all sensible people ...
— Werwolves • Elliott O'Donnell

... being: which, by a peculier name also, are called Thynges Mathematicall. For, these, beyng (in a maner) middle, betwene thinges supernaturall and naturall: are not so absolute and excellent, as thinges supernatural: Nor yet so base and grosse, as things naturall: But are thinges immateriall: and neuerthelesse, by materiall things hable somewhat to be signified. And though their particular Images, by Art, are aggregable and diuisible: yet the generall Formes, ...
— The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara • John Dee


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