superexistentn.
/ˌsuːpərᵻɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/, /ˌsuːpərɛɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/, /ˌsjuːpərᵻɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/, /ˌsjuːpərɛɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌsupərɪɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/, /ˌsupərɛɡˈzɪst(ə)nt/ Chiefly Philosophy.
Usually with the. That which exists on a higher plane or transcends ordinary existence.
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1852 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church VIII. iv. 206 The doctrine of the absolute as the super-existent [Ger. Die Lehre von dem Absoluten als dem Ueberseyenden], from which issues forth the whole developing process of being.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 94 All that exists he regards as a symbolical manifestation of the super-existent.
1930 Mind 39 124 There is a hierarchy of orders of being, the conceivable, the conceived, the actually existent (the temporal, devenir), the super-existent (God).
2004 tr. H. U. von Balthasar Theo-logic ii. 94 It is paradoxical that the Jew Philo equates this (Platonic) super-existent that eludes thought with the living God of Israel, who refuses his name to Moses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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