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supercelestial, a. (n.)|ˌs(j)uːpəsɪˈlɛstɪəl|
[f. late L. supercælestis = Gr. ὑπερουράνιος: see super- 1 a, 4, and celestial. Cf. obs. F. superceleste; It. sopracceleste, Pg. sobreceleste; Sp., Pg. sobrecelestial.]
1. That is above the heavens; situated or existing above the firmament.
1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 2 Ptolomæus, Atlas, and Alphonsus..founde out the maruelous course and sondry motions, of the supercelestiall bodies. 1561[see subcelestial A.]. 1635Swan Spec. Mundi (1670) 31 How can it therefore be that these should be those supercelestial waters separated from all other waters by the firmament, seeing the firmament is above them? 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) Index Hh ij b, Hyperurania,..Supercelestial things, which the Gnosticks bragg'd that they were able to see. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 16 Some have thought those to be waters plac'd above the highest heavens, or super-celestial waters. 1744Berkeley Siris §366 What this philosopher in his Phædrus speaketh of the super⁓celestial region, and the divinity resident therein. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. vi. iv. 250 No poet has ever celebrated these supercelestial things, nor ever will celebrate them, as they deserve.
2. More than heavenly; of a nature or character higher than celestial.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 19 The augmentation of the supercelestiall grace and lyght. 1578J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule Ep. Ded., The supercelestiall or not to be seene graces in God are very manifestly knowen by his most wonderful workes. 1644Sir E. Dering Prop. Sacr. ii. 17 A..supercelestiall,..life-giving mystery. 1672Sterry Freed. Will (1675) 239 Jesus Christ is a supernatural, supercælestial Spirit, far above the nature of Souls or Angels in the first Creation. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 97 Discourse salvifick, he at Meals instill'd, And Souls with Food supercelestial fill'd. 1826G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (1853) 263 That they might learn the flesh which he would give them to be supercelestial and spiritual food. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. ix. iii. 138 To the higher faculty, then, there are already visible..gleams of a super-celestial dawn. 1902W. M. Alexander Demon. Possess. N.T. viii. 227 These evil powers..drag them down from God and super-celestial things to those below.
†b. In ironical or trivial use. Obs.
1566W. P. tr. Curio's Pasquine in Traunce 110 b, They are altogether idle questions of vayne things, crooked, more than supercelestiall, crabbed, and Seraphicall. 1576J. Knewstub Confut., etc. (1579) 39 Hee hath..ouerthrowen all H.N. his spiritual constructions, and supercelesticall [sic] interpretations. 1603Florio Montaigne iii. xiii. (1632) 630 Super⁓celestiall opinions, and under-terrestriall manners, are things, that amongst us, I have ever seene to bee of singular accord.
†B. n. A supercelestial being. Obs. rare—1.
1652Benlowes Theoph. Pref., This spiritual Poem, which treateth on Sub-cælestials, Cælestials and Super-cælestials. |