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1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 107 Or to descend to the very point it selfe, is their congresse in the end of the watrie, and beginning of the fierie Trigon so ominous, and fatall, which happeneth not preternaturally, or supernaturally, but according to the natural course once euery 800 yeers.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §30 Simple air, being preternaturally attenuated by heat, will make itself room, and break, and blow up that which resisteth it.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) Introd. Warts and Swellings, with other things which grow upon the living Body præternaturally.

1701 P. Paxton Ess. Concerning Body of Man i. ii. 49 Wine and strong Liquors will heat us, if taken in quantity. And as this heat may be preternaturally encreased, by what we sometimes eat and drink.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 402 The Vibrations in the internal Parts of the Brain are preternaturally increased.

1791 R. Jackson Treat. Fevers Jamaica ix. 219 Where the cause of the disease is of unusual force, or where the powers of life are preternaturally weak, our interference ought to be speedy, bold and decided.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iii. ii. 168 With a countenance preternaturally thoughtful for his years.

1881 W. Collins Black Robe vii The night was almost preternaturally quiet.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxiv. 381 There, with his preternaturally fine senses alert, he listened.

1970 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 22 June 19/3 He was a curly-haired, blue-eyed, preternaturally neat boy, heartily despised by his peer group.

1993 Economist 7 Aug. 74/3 Investors with anything like his clout tend to be preternaturally silent.