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Supernal adj.

Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions. "That supernal judge."

Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly; as, supernal grace. "Not by the sufferance of supernal power."

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Etymology of 'Supernal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Supernal" Quotes from Famous Books

... eye to eye, living over the past with tender regrets. But we see Dante kneeling before Beatrice, in profound humility and intellectual entrancement, touching the hem of her robe, while she points upward to the supernal Glory, whose light is ...

— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... as it claims to explain, neither the exceptional individual nor the apparently unmerited sufferings of the individual, and it has beside inescapable difficulties of its own. It has to parallel the course of human existence with a range of supernal existence for which there is absolutely no proof; it has to numerically equalize birth and death—and these are not equal in an increasing terrestrial population—or else it has to assume, as it does of course, on other planes a storehouse of souls ...

— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins

... commonplace objects on their tide. He thoroughly accepted that interpretation of the Ideal which calls it a "divine halo with which the Creator had encircled the world of reality;" but while he instinctively lifted all he loved into supernal regions and contemplated them in the glorious spirit-light that heightens all beauty, he lost sight of none of the stern actualities of their existence. His imagination had fashioned a hero out of Maurice, and ...

— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

... consecutive hours, and that I awoke at 12.30 A.M. that selfsame night with the entire contents of the accompanying——? (have as yet not decided in what category the critics will consign this weird hypotyposis of the Supernal) jingling through my tired brain. I set to work at exactly 12.45 A.M. and wrote until our esteemed companions of the nocturnal hours ceased their unloved music (mosquitos), 5.05 A.M., hied myself back to bed and hypothecated as many winks as Dame Slumber saw fit ...

— Betelguese - A Trip Through Hell • Jean Louis de Esque

... forgotten what is promised us, Because of stinking days and rotting nights? Eternal feasting, drinking, blazing lights With endless leisure, periods of play! Supernal pleasures, myriads of gay Discussions, great debates with prophet-kings! And rings of riddling scholars all surrounding God who sits in the very middle, expounding The Torah.... Now ...

— American Poetry, 1922 - A Miscellany • Edna St. Vincent Millay

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