supernaladj.n.

Brit.

/suːˈpəːnl/,

/sjuːˈpəːnl/,

/sᵿˈpəːnl/,

/sjᵿˈpəːnl/, U.S.

/səˈpərnəl/

Forms: Middle English–1600s supernall, late Middle English– supernal, 1500s supernalle; also Scottish pre-1700 supernale.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French supernal; Latin supernalis.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French supernal, supernel (French supernel ) highest, superior, supreme (12th cent. in Old French), sublime, celestial (a1389), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin supernalis (from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin supernus supern adj. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan supernal (1420), Spanish supernal (15th cent.), Portuguese supernal (15th cent.), Italian supernale (14th cent.). Compare infernal adj. and supern adj.With sense A. 2 perhaps compare supernatural adj.

A. adj.

a. Situated in or belonging to heaven; divine. Opposed to infernal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective]

heavenisheOE

heavenlyOE

celestienc1330

celestialc1384

celestly1400

supernc1429

supernal1447

ethereala1522

celesticala1533

supermundal?1577

paradised1594

etherean1600

Uranian1600

superlunary1614

unearthlya1616

supermundane1623

superterrestrial1635

supralunary1635

pantheana1641

supramundane1662

ethereous1667

supermundial1678

superlunar1742

superterrene1755

unworldly1765

supraterrestrial1836

supralunar1851

other world1882

other-worldish1894

1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 4341 (MED) Dyuynyte wych þat is inmortal Hath in veyn stonys noon habytacyoun..But in heuene in þe regne supernal.

?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) l. 422 The hye god supernall.

1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta i. i, in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Kiv^v Desirous still to searche The hidden secrets of supernall powers.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 112 That supernal Iudge that stirs good thoughts.

1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 222 Many degrees there are of celestiall happinesse... Those supernall mansions are not all of an height.

1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) iv. 125 (note) To the Infernal Deities they offer'd Black Beasts, to the Celestial, White; Because (saith Arnobius..) to Supernal Gods,..the more joyful Colour is acceptable.

1710 W. King Hist. Acct. Heathen Gods & Heroes lxv. 135 She [sc. Styx] was a very Ancient Goddess, who had a magnificent Palace, far from the supernal Regions.

1788 J. Hurdis Village Curate 126 Thyself perchance was some supernal spirit, Permitted to reside on earth awhile.

1840 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici (1847) III. x. Epil. 809/1 May the King of Angels lead us to the society of the supernal citizens.

1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 71 Laud to Him, to Whom Supernal Thrones and Virtues bend the knee.

1908 Athenæum 30 May 662/2 The supernal gods, representing the growing powers of law and order.

1963 J. Killinger Failure Theol. in Mod. Lit. i. 20 At last, the intensity of the supernal realm mounting over his consciousness, he is able to behold the full beauty of Beatrice.

2004 J. Turner Spice (2005) vi. 234 Zeus sits perfumed in a fragrant cloud on Olympus, where his fellow gods feast on ineffably fragrant substances called ambrosia and nectar. The latter is some form of supernal beverage.

b. Of, in, or belonging to the sky or upper regions; celestial. literary and poetic in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective]

heavenisheOE

heavenlyOE

celestialc1400

celestinec1430

supernal?1504

celical1521

elemental1527

ethereal1530

celest1535

impyre1554

skyey1587

vaultedc1590

firmamental1600

empyreal1605

superior1632

firmamentary1633

ethereous1667

skied1789

?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. aa.iiii^v With Saturne and Mercury that wer supernall.

1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) 3 Of the hye influences of the supernall bodyes.

1603 S. Daniel To Lady Anne Clifford in Panegyrike sig. E5^v Like to those supernall bodies set Within their Orbs.

1652 J. Skeffington tr. B. Gracián y Morales Heroe of Lorenzo xv. 118 A supernall alliance in the stars.

1727 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Many Memorable Things II. x. 333 Archimedes..made an Heaven of Brass, representing the Planets, and all the Movements of the natural Clock-work of the supernal Orbs.

1783 W. Mason tr. C. A. Dufresnoy Art of Painting 2 High o'er the stars you take your soaring flight, And rove the regions of supernal light.

1867 H. W. Longfellow tr. Dante Divine Comedy III. xxiii. 151 Above the myriads of lamps, A Sun that one and all of them enkindled, E'en as our own doth the supernal sights.

1899 Times 10 Jan. 10/3 Such supernal regions as are traversed by M. Andrée's balloon.

1921 B. Deutsch & A. Yarmolinsky tr. A. Marienhof in Mod. Russ. Poetry 177 The supernal sky, like a stocking With a hole in its heel.

1997 M. Bidney Patterns of Epiphany i. i. 34 An implied communication between a shining center-image and a supernal myriad-lighted sphery vault.

c. Situated above or at the top, upper; high up, lofty. Also: above ground. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > high position > [adjective]

highOE

high-seta1382

sovereigna1425

airy1565

sublime?1567

haughty1570

supernal1599

aerial1608

upward1622

high-top1653

superincumbent1659

supern1703

highish1778

high-up1831

high-level1842

altitudinous1868

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 132/2 Adde..a qv. of an ownce of redd Roses of the supernalle summityes therof.

1751 Hebrew Lexicon (ed. 2) To Rdr. 8, in G. Sharpe Two Diss. The use of the supernal figures is to direct to any word in the Lexicon, from the Index or Table of words answering to or derived from the Hebrew.

1767 G. Sharpe Greek Tongue ii. 16 When a vowel is rejected on account of another vowel, the absence is expressed by a supernal comma.

1806 T. Maurice Indian Antiq. I. 106 The great similarity which prevails in the architecture, supernal and subterraneous.

1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall ii. 18 Picking off the supernal fragments of an egg he had just cracked.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. i. i. 7 The mountain summits, grand, supernal.

1996 Kenyon Rev. Summer 97 It was the clarity of vision at these supernal heights that lifted him like a pocket's lining out of himself.

2. Of, belonging to, or relating to a realm or state beyond the earthly world; otherworldly, supernatural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] > of a heavenly nature

heavenlyOE

divinec1374

celestc1420

celestinec1430

supernal1483

celestial1484

celical1521

heavenlike1542

paradisiacal1660

celic1663

celestiousa1691

celestical1695

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccciii/1 He had mekenes in conuersacion, supernal doctryne in predicacion.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxx. sig. l.i The lockes and the barres..Fell downe..by power supernall.

1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 212 The three-fold plenitude of his [sc. the pope's] supernall, terrestriall, and infernall power.

c1610–15 Life St. Etheldred in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 70 The supernall pietie of god.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 573 God..Thither will send his winged Messengers On errands of supernal Grace.

a1706 J. Evelyn Life Mrs. Godolphin (1939) 109 To possess those divine & Supernal Pleasurs of doing Good.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 146 By supernal grace Enrob'd with Light, and naturaliz'd in Heaven.

1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) xxxviii. 189 He had made choice of supernal existence.

1898 Monist 9 117 The forms of all things are preserved in a universal and supernal existence which knoweth not of origin or dissolution.

1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 5 Supposed communications with a supernal world.

1948 L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. i. 24 The philologian will then continue..filling his little cards with dates and examples, in the hope that supernal light will shine over them and bring out the clear lines of truth.

2005 Threepenny Rev. 101 21 Barrie's almost supernal ability to get into the heads of children.

3. In extended use: of or relating to a person of high rank or office; elevated, exalted.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [adjective]

higheOE

drightlikeOE

highlyOE

drightfula1225

prouda1275

principalc1385

solemna1387

gentlec1390

high and mighty1400

imperial?c1400

royalc1405

kinglyc1425

sublimatec1425

lordfulc1429

lordlyc1440

assumpt1447

raiseda1450

haught1470

kinglikec1485

lordlike1488

triumphant1494

greatlya1500

princely?a1510

supereminent1531

princelike1532

lofta1547

lofty1548

regal1561

supernal1562

haughty1563

excelse1569

queen-like?1571

majestical1578

erecteda1586

augustious1591

ennobled1592

imperious1592

enthronized1593

august1594

high-born1598

sublimed1602

jovial1604

majestic1606

enthroned1609

starred1615

exalted1623

majestuous1633

reared1638

sublimary1655

majestative1656

kingrik1663

superb1663

grand1673

celse1708

stilted1744

canonized1790

queenly1791

apotheosized1794

princified1857

1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes sig. B.i He hathe put downe the mightye ones. From their supernall seate.

c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 125 Then downe she [sc. Fortune] thrustes from their supernall seat Princes & kings.

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 402 Dread Phantoms, glaring supernal on you.

1851 J. Sortain Hildebrand & Excommunicated Emperor (ed. 2) i. iii. 28 His attire—which, usually, was most splendid and befitting his supernal rank, as an earthly monarch—was soiled, disordered.

1917 Times 14 Dec. 9/6 As the Idea Nazionale puts it, ‘the successor of Urban II is silent in his supernal sphere’.

2010 Canwest News Service (Nexis) 19 Sept. There's an image on one side extraordinarily similar to what the Sun King would have seen: Superior, supercilious, supernal. On the other, there's an obsequious wimp.

4. In weakened sense: supreme, outstanding, excellent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [adjective]

sunderlyOE

noblec1330

precellentc1384

passantc1385

especialc1386

passinga1387

surmountingc1407

superlative?a1430

precelling?1435

pre-eminenta1460

outrepassed1477

divine1488

pre-excellenta1500

superexcellent1508

transcending1528

pre-ordinate1543

exceeding1552

superexcelling1554

exquisite1578

surpassingc1580

summary1587

paragon1593

transcendent1598

overmatchful1609

termless1609

overtoppinga1615

paramounta1626

overtowering1639

surpassant1654

transcendental1701

superior1711

towery1731

prize1739

supernala1817

tiptopsome1819

tip-topping1826

par excellence1839

superfine1850

towering1894

a1817 T. Dwight Theol. (1818) I. ix. 153 Leaves and blossoms of supernal beauty.

1899 E. Markham Man with Hoe 123 I know, Supernal Woman, Thou dost seek No song of man.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 19 July 2/1 A lordly and supernal cake.

1989 E. W. Said in Nation 25 Dec. 802/3 His almost mystical interpretive genius and his supernal virtuosity.

1998 Los Angeles Mag. Aug. 74/2 Restaurants like Empress Pavilion, whose supernal steamed Dungeness crab is almost swollen with the taste of fresh chopped garlic.

B. n.

A heavenly, celestial, or divine being. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun]

godeOE

deityc1374

higher powerc1384

princec1384

divinityc1386

governorc1400

powerc1425

numen1495

fear1535

heaven1554

godheada1586

godhood1586

landlorda1635

supreme1643

supercelestial1652

supernal1661

universality1681

father1820

unspeakable1843

Molimo1861

Mlimo1897

superperson1907

somebody up there1972

sky fairy1997

1661 J. Boys Æneas his Descent 68 Virgil describeth most exactly the manner of sacrificing to the infernall Gods, which was as different as Hell from Heaven from that of the supernals.

1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 202 Every grove had its deity, or supernal who delighted in it.

1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 232 St. Nicholas is their third grand supernal.

1819 Times 23 Aug. 3/3 The astonished Supernals who are celebrated as having been on a time hurled from the mansions of bliss.

1861 I. Taylor Spirit Hebr. Poetry 340 If among the supernals [of Milton] the true sublime is attained, it is in hell, not in heaven.

1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 23 398 We must know God and all supernals rightly to know ourselves.

Derivatives

ˌsuperˈnality n. rare the quality of being supernal; a supernal being or thing.In quot. 1599 as a humorous title.

ΚΠ

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 Whereof their supernalities..seemed to be something sorie.

1914 J. H. Woods in tr. Yoga-system of Patañjali 269 (footnote) Bālarāma says that the supernality consists in a kind of hyperaesthetic perception of minute sounds.

1936 E. Fitzgerald tr. F. Mehring K. Marx ii. 65 It becomes the task of history to establish the truth of contemporary reality after the supernality of truth has disappeared.

a1991 L. Jackson & S. B. Jackson Rational Meaning (1997) xviii. 370 Truth..conceived of not only as an ideal achievement..but a supernality better imaginable as existing as a divine thing-in-itself in metalinguistic heavens of abstraction.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	supernal
释义	supernaladj.n. Brit. /suːˈpəːnl/, /sjuːˈpəːnl/, /sᵿˈpəːnl/, /sjᵿˈpəːnl/, U.S. /səˈpərnəl/ Forms: Middle English–1600s supernall, late Middle English– supernal, 1500s supernalle; also Scottish pre-1700 supernale. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French supernal; Latin supernalis. Etymology: < (i) Middle French supernal, supernel (French supernel ) highest, superior, supreme (12th cent. in Old French), sublime, celestial (a1389), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin supernalis (from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin supernus supern adj. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Old Occitan supernal (1420), Spanish supernal (15th cent.), Portuguese supernal (15th cent.), Italian supernale (14th cent.). Compare infernal adj. and supern adj.With sense A. 2 perhaps compare supernatural adj. A. adj. 1. a. Situated in or belonging to heaven; divine. Opposed to infernal. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] heavenisheOE heavenlyOE heavenlyOE celestienc1330 celestialc1384 celestly1400 supernc1429 supernal1447 ethereala1522 celesticala1533 supermundal?1577 paradised1594 etherean1600 Uranian1600 superlunary1614 unearthlya1616 supermundane1623 superterrestrial1635 supralunary1635 pantheana1641 supramundane1662 ethereous1667 supermundial1678 superlunar1742 superterrene1755 unworldly1765 supraterrestrial1836 supralunar1851 other world1882 other-worldish1894 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 4341 (MED) Dyuynyte wych þat is inmortal Hath in veyn stonys noon habytacyoun..But in heuene in þe regne supernal. ?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) l. 422 The hye god supernall. 1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta i. i, in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Kiv^v Desirous still to searche The hidden secrets of supernall powers. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 112 That supernal Iudge that stirs good thoughts. View more context for this quotation 1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 222 Many degrees there are of celestiall happinesse... Those supernall mansions are not all of an height. 1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) iv. 125 (note) To the Infernal Deities they offer'd Black Beasts, to the Celestial, White; Because (saith Arnobius..) to Supernal Gods,..the more joyful Colour is acceptable. 1710 W. King Hist. Acct. Heathen Gods & Heroes lxv. 135 She [sc. Styx] was a very Ancient Goddess, who had a magnificent Palace, far from the supernal Regions. 1788 J. Hurdis Village Curate 126 Thyself perchance was some supernal spirit, Permitted to reside on earth awhile. 1840 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici (1847) III. x. Epil. 809/1 May the King of Angels lead us to the society of the supernal citizens. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 71 Laud to Him, to Whom Supernal Thrones and Virtues bend the knee. 1908 Athenæum 30 May 662/2 The supernal gods, representing the growing powers of law and order. 1963 J. Killinger Failure Theol. in Mod. Lit. i. 20 At last, the intensity of the supernal realm mounting over his consciousness, he is able to behold the full beauty of Beatrice. 2004 J. Turner Spice (2005) vi. 234 Zeus sits perfumed in a fragrant cloud on Olympus, where his fellow gods feast on ineffably fragrant substances called ambrosia and nectar. The latter is some form of supernal beverage. b. Of, in, or belonging to the sky or upper regions; celestial. literary and poetic in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective] heavenisheOE heavenlyOE celestialc1400 celestinec1430 supernal?1504 celical1521 elemental1527 ethereal1530 celest1535 impyre1554 skyey1587 vaultedc1590 firmamental1600 empyreal1605 superior1632 firmamentary1633 ethereous1667 skied1789 ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. aa.iiii^v With Saturne and Mercury that wer supernall. 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) 3 Of the hye influences of the supernall bodyes. 1603 S. Daniel To Lady Anne Clifford in Panegyrike sig. E5^v Like to those supernall bodies set Within their Orbs. 1652 J. Skeffington tr. B. Gracián y Morales Heroe of Lorenzo xv. 118 A supernall alliance in the stars. 1727 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Many Memorable Things II. x. 333 Archimedes..made an Heaven of Brass, representing the Planets, and all the Movements of the natural Clock-work of the supernal Orbs. 1783 W. Mason tr. C. A. Dufresnoy Art of Painting 2 High o'er the stars you take your soaring flight, And rove the regions of supernal light. 1867 H. W. Longfellow tr. Dante Divine Comedy III. xxiii. 151 Above the myriads of lamps, A Sun that one and all of them enkindled, E'en as our own doth the supernal sights. 1899 Times 10 Jan. 10/3 Such supernal regions as are traversed by M. Andrée's balloon. 1921 B. Deutsch & A. Yarmolinsky tr. A. Marienhof in Mod. Russ. Poetry 177 The supernal sky, like a stocking With a hole in its heel. 1997 M. Bidney Patterns of Epiphany i. i. 34 An implied communication between a shining center-image and a supernal myriad-lighted sphery vault. c. Situated above or at the top, upper; high up, lofty. Also: above ground. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > [adjective] highOE high-seta1382 sovereigna1425 airy1565 sublime?1567 haughty1570 supernal1599 aerial1608 upward1622 high-top1653 superincumbent1659 supern1703 highish1778 high-up1831 high-level1842 altitudinous1868 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 132/2 Adde..a qv. of an ownce of redd Roses of the supernalle summityes therof. 1751 Hebrew Lexicon (ed. 2) To Rdr. 8, in G. Sharpe Two Diss. The use of the supernal figures is to direct to any word in the Lexicon, from the Index or Table of words answering to or derived from the Hebrew. 1767 G. Sharpe Greek Tongue ii. 16 When a vowel is rejected on account of another vowel, the absence is expressed by a supernal comma. 1806 T. Maurice Indian Antiq. I. 106 The great similarity which prevails in the architecture, supernal and subterraneous. 1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall ii. 18 Picking off the supernal fragments of an egg he had just cracked. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. i. i. 7 The mountain summits, grand, supernal. 1996 Kenyon Rev. Summer 97 It was the clarity of vision at these supernal heights that lifted him like a pocket's lining out of himself. 2. Of, belonging to, or relating to a realm or state beyond the earthly world; otherworldly, supernatural. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] > of a heavenly nature heavenlyOE divinec1374 celestc1420 celestinec1430 supernal1483 celestial1484 celical1521 heavenlike1542 paradisiacal1660 celic1663 celestiousa1691 celestical1695 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccciii/1 He had mekenes in conuersacion, supernal doctryne in predicacion. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxx. sig. l.i The lockes and the barres..Fell downe..by power supernall. 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 212 The three-fold plenitude of his [sc. the pope's] supernall, terrestriall, and infernall power. c1610–15 Life St. Etheldred in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 70 The supernall pietie of god. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 573 God..Thither will send his winged Messengers On errands of supernal Grace. View more context for this quotation a1706 J. Evelyn Life Mrs. Godolphin (1939) 109 To possess those divine & Supernal Pleasurs of doing Good. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 146 By supernal grace Enrob'd with Light, and naturaliz'd in Heaven. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) xxxviii. 189 He had made choice of supernal existence. 1898 Monist 9 117 The forms of all things are preserved in a universal and supernal existence which knoweth not of origin or dissolution. 1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 5 Supposed communications with a supernal world. 1948 L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. i. 24 The philologian will then continue..filling his little cards with dates and examples, in the hope that supernal light will shine over them and bring out the clear lines of truth. 2005 Threepenny Rev. 101 21 Barrie's almost supernal ability to get into the heads of children. 3. In extended use: of or relating to a person of high rank or office; elevated, exalted. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [adjective] higheOE drightlikeOE highlyOE drightfula1225 prouda1275 principalc1385 solemna1387 gentlec1390 high and mighty1400 imperial?c1400 royalc1405 kinglyc1425 sublimatec1425 lordfulc1429 lordlyc1440 assumpt1447 raiseda1450 haught1470 kinglikec1485 lordlike1488 triumphant1494 greatlya1500 princely?a1510 supereminent1531 princelike1532 lofta1547 lofty1548 regal1561 supernal1562 haughty1563 excelse1569 queen-like?1571 majestical1578 erecteda1586 augustious1591 ennobled1592 imperious1592 enthronized1593 august1594 high-born1598 sublimed1602 jovial1604 majestic1606 enthroned1609 starred1615 exalted1623 majestuous1633 reared1638 sublimary1655 majestative1656 kingrik1663 superb1663 grand1673 celse1708 stilted1744 canonized1790 queenly1791 apotheosized1794 princified1857 1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes sig. B.i He hathe put downe the mightye ones. From their supernall seate. c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 125 Then downe she [sc. Fortune] thrustes from their supernall seat Princes & kings. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 402 Dread Phantoms, glaring supernal on you. 1851 J. Sortain Hildebrand & Excommunicated Emperor (ed. 2) i. iii. 28 His attire—which, usually, was most splendid and befitting his supernal rank, as an earthly monarch—was soiled, disordered. 1917 Times 14 Dec. 9/6 As the Idea Nazionale puts it, ‘the successor of Urban II is silent in his supernal sphere’. 2010 Canwest News Service (Nexis) 19 Sept. There's an image on one side extraordinarily similar to what the Sun King would have seen: Superior, supercilious, supernal. On the other, there's an obsequious wimp. 4. In weakened sense: supreme, outstanding, excellent. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [adjective] sunderlyOE noblec1330 precellentc1384 passantc1385 especialc1386 passinga1387 surmountingc1407 superlative?a1430 precelling?1435 pre-eminenta1460 outrepassed1477 divine1488 pre-excellenta1500 superexcellent1508 transcending1528 pre-ordinate1543 exceeding1552 superexcelling1554 exquisite1578 surpassingc1580 summary1587 paragon1593 transcendent1598 overmatchful1609 termless1609 overtoppinga1615 paramounta1626 overtowering1639 surpassant1654 transcendental1701 superior1711 towery1731 prize1739 supernala1817 tiptopsome1819 tip-topping1826 par excellence1839 superfine1850 towering1894 a1817 T. Dwight Theol. (1818) I. ix. 153 Leaves and blossoms of supernal beauty. 1899 E. Markham Man with Hoe 123 I know, Supernal Woman, Thou dost seek No song of man. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 19 July 2/1 A lordly and supernal cake. 1989 E. W. Said in Nation 25 Dec. 802/3 His almost mystical interpretive genius and his supernal virtuosity. 1998 Los Angeles Mag. Aug. 74/2 Restaurants like Empress Pavilion, whose supernal steamed Dungeness crab is almost swollen with the taste of fresh chopped garlic. B. n. A heavenly, celestial, or divine being. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] godeOE deityc1374 higher powerc1384 princec1384 divinityc1386 governorc1400 powerc1425 numen1495 fear1535 heaven1554 godheada1586 godhood1586 landlorda1635 supreme1643 supercelestial1652 supernal1661 universality1681 father1820 unspeakable1843 Molimo1861 Mlimo1897 superperson1907 somebody up there1972 sky fairy1997 1661 J. Boys Æneas his Descent 68 Virgil describeth most exactly the manner of sacrificing to the infernall Gods, which was as different as Hell from Heaven from that of the supernals. 1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 202 Every grove had its deity, or supernal who delighted in it. 1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 232 St. Nicholas is their third grand supernal. 1819 Times 23 Aug. 3/3 The astonished Supernals who are celebrated as having been on a time hurled from the mansions of bliss. 1861 I. Taylor Spirit Hebr. Poetry 340 If among the supernals [of Milton] the true sublime is attained, it is in hell, not in heaven. 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 23 398 We must know God and all supernals rightly to know ourselves. Derivatives ˌsuperˈnality n. rare the quality of being supernal; a supernal being or thing.In quot. 1599 as a humorous title. ΚΠ 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 Whereof their supernalities..seemed to be something sorie. 1914 J. H. Woods in tr. Yoga-system of Patañjali 269 (footnote) Bālarāma says that the supernality consists in a kind of hyperaesthetic perception of minute sounds. 1936 E. Fitzgerald tr. F. Mehring K. Marx ii. 65 It becomes the task of history to establish the truth of contemporary reality after the supernality of truth has disappeared. a1991 L. Jackson & S. B. Jackson Rational Meaning (1997) xviii. 370 Truth..conceived of not only as an ideal achievement..but a supernality better imaginable as existing as a divine thing-in-itself in metalinguistic heavens of abstraction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1447
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