Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Exceeding or going beyond the purely physical.
- adjective Not explained by known physical laws; preternatural or supernatural.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Superorganic; independent of or not explicable by physical laws of the organism; psychical; spiritual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.
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- adjective Above or beyond
physics ; notexplainable by physical laws.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Accordingly, everything combined to suggest to Crookes that here, if anywhere, he was at the boundary between the physical and the superphysical worlds.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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It is only by its interactions with gravity that levity brings about events in the physical world-events, however, which are themselves partly of a physical, partly of a superphysical kind.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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For from the physical, as much as from the superphysical aspect the nerve-system represents the 'dry' part, and the metabolic system the 'moist' part of man's being.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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The ego, the superphysical conscious and reasoning entity should rule its material body, its temporary vehicle.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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Normally a definite spiritual type co-ordinates the dynamic functions present in the superphysical sphere of nature in the manner required to give the plant-organism its appropriate form.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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And withal, as he lounged in the fire-light, dreamily turning his love-letter, he had a sort of superphysical beauty, reflected of the glow that many waters cannot quench.
Judith of the Plains Marie Manning
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A mere continuation of this path could lead to nothing but a loss of all connexion between the plant's superphysical and physical component parts.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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In the midst of his many interests and activities, Crookes was filled from his youth with a longing to find by empirical means the bridge leading from the world of physical effects to that of superphysical causes.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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My guru was reluctant to discuss the superphysical realms.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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My guru was reluctant to discuss the superphysical realms.
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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