praeternatural

• [42] The praeternatural origin of dreams was universally admitted by the nations of antiquity, and a considerable part of the Gallic army was already prepared to place their confidence in the salutary sign of the Christian religion. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
• Nepenthe who still remained in ignorance of all these praeternatural occurrences. —  South Wind
• "This praeternatural fact, the fulfilment of the —  The Virgin-Birth of Our Lord A paper read (in substance) before the confraternity of the Holy Trinity at Cambridge
• The burghers doffed when he passed; and scampish leather-draggled urchins gazed after him with praeternatural respect on their hanging chins, as if a gold-mine of great girth had walked through the awe-struck game. —  Farina
• [58] The tale, so full of horror and absurdity, was greedily embraced by the credulous hatred of the Goths; but, while it gratified their hatred, it increased their fear, since the posterity of daemons and witches might be supposed to inherit some share of the praeternatural powers, as well as of the malignant temper, of their parents. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

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