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superhuman, a. (n.)|s(j)uːpəˈhjuːmən|
[ad. med.L. superhūmānus: see super- 4 and human a. Cf. F. surhumain, It. soprumano, Sp., Pg. sobrehumano.]
Above that which is human; more than human. a. Of a quality, act, etc.: Higher than that of man; beyond the capacity or power of man.
1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 203 This is the state of Loves life in God, which giveth a super-humane being unto man, man being yet on earth. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 127 Bless'd water in the Font..Though worthless in itself, in Sacred use It Graces super⁓human can produce. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian i, There was no necessity for superhuman means to obtain such knowledge. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel (1876) 453 The miracle of superhuman knowledge. 1874H. Rogers (title) The Superhuman Origin of the Bible Inferred from Itself. 1896Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 326 Superhuman agencies and powers.
absol.1876Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 198 Such prodigies of valour as may fairly be..considered to approximate to the superhuman.
b. Of a person or being: Higher than man; having a nature above that of man.
1824Macaulay Misc. Writ. (1860) I. 64 To describe superhuman beings in the language, and to attribute to them the actions, of humanity may be grotesque, unphilosophical, inconsistent. 1866Liddon Bampton Lect. vi. (1875) 296 Christ is a superhuman person.
c. In rhetorical or hyperbolical use: Higher or greater than that of any ordinary man; beyond the average human capacity, stature, etc.
1822Scott Nigel vi, The superhuman yells which he uttered. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. v. 419 Seven months of almost superhuman energy. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn l, While he was still steeped to the lips in super⁓human luxury.
d. as n. Used to render G. übermensch superman.
1896W. Wallace in Academy 1 Aug. 75/2 [Nietzsche] a hermit of the present, and a man, or rather a more than man, a ‘superhuman’, of the future. |