释义 |
superˈsensible, a. (n.) [super- 4 a.] a. That is above the sensible; beyond what is perceptible by the senses.
1798A. F. M. Willich Elem. Crit. Philos. 180 The supersensible substratum of nature is that object, of which we can determine nothing in an affirmative sense. 1828–32Webster (citing Murdock). 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Uses Gt. Men Wks. (Bohn) I. 280 Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map. 1862Stephen Ess. Barrister 325 An apparently necessary relation..between the sensible phenomenon and the supersensible reality. a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric (1883) 20 It cannot..give any solidity or reality to a supersensible hypothesis. b. absol. or as n. That which is supersensible.
1803Edin. Rev. I. 254 The glory of illuminating his countrymen in purisms and supersensibles. 1856Masson Ess. Biog. & Crit. 34 In Shakespeare..there was..a tendency towards the supersensible and invisible. 1881Shairp Asp. Poetry iii. 69 So far then poetry and religion are akin, that both hold of the unseen, the supersensible. Hence superˈsensibly adv.
1868A. B. Alcott Tablets 16 A creed dealing thus supersensibly with the elements must have fertilizing properties. |