Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Celestial; heavenly.
- adjective Of, coming from, or being in the sky or high above.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being in a higher or upper place; situated above: as, supernal regions.
- Relating to things above; celestial; heavenly.
- In zoology, superior in position; situated high up: as, the supernal nostrils of a bird.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being in a higher place or region; locally higher.
- adjective Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
heaven or to thesky ;celestial . - adjective
Exalted ,exquisite ,superlative .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being or coming from on high
- adjective of heaven or the spirit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We call the supernal lights fixed, yet they wander about yonder plain, and if
The Last Man 2003
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We call the supernal lights fixed, yet they wander about yonder plain, and if I look again where I looked an hour ago, the face of the eternal heavens is altered.
I.8 1826
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We call the supernal lights fixed, yet they wander about yonder plain, and if I look again where I looked an hour ago, the face of the eternal heavens is altered.
The Last Man 1826
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We call the supernal lights fixed, yet they wander about yonder plain, and if I look again where I looked an hour ago, the face of the eternal heavens is altered.
The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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The second obvious element in Shelley's poetry is his love of beauty, not the common beauty of nature or humanity which Wordsworth celebrated, but a strange "supernal" beauty with no "earthly" quality or reality.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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In the tiny chalets perched on the mountain ridges, folks literally dwell in cloudland, and enjoy a kind of supernal existence, having for near neighbours the eagles in their eyries and the fleet-footed chamois or izard.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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Even if they had shown a pristine 35 print on 40-foot-high silver using a brand-new bulb, it wouldn't have looked "supernal" in the least.
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For similar reasons, most people, especially most who believe in Heaven, also consider Heaven, or whatever, as a special kind of supernal real estate, as Owen Gingerich, author of the foreword to a recent English edition of Johannes Kepler's
LaRouche's Latest 2009
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a kind of supernal visitant, vanishing anon into nothingness, or only a pawnbroker's duplicate.
The Lovels of Arden 1875
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Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond.
John W. Whitehead: Have a Very Merry Celluloid Christmas John W. Whitehead 2011
quotato commented on the word supernal
supernal very lofty word
August 31, 2007
qms commented on the word supernal
The commonplace may hold truth's kernel
And point the way to things supernal,
So follow that arrow
From a red wheelbarrow
Or raise your eyes from Duchamp's urinal.
August 19, 2016