supernal

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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.

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  1. adjective Celestial; heavenly.
  2. adjective Of, coming from, or being in the sky or high above.

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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. —  In The Company Of Glenn
  • 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
  • The writers would have us think of joy not as a supernal hinge, but as a pottle of hay, hung by a crafty creator before humanity's asinine nose. —  The Joyful Heart
  • The second stage is zootheism; within it the powers of animate forms are exaggerated and amplified into the realm of the supernal, and certain animals are deified. —  The Siouan Indians
  • This firm belief has left its impress on language in the names devised to express the supernal, the spiritual world. —  The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin supernus; see uper in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Italian supernale, from Latin supernus, that is above, on high, upper: see supern. Cf. infernal.
 

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/sjuˈpərnəl/
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