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▪ I. † suˈperial, a.1 Obs. [ad. med.L. *superiālis, f. superus (see superior) or superius adv. higher. Cf. inferial.] = superior a. in various senses.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 395 He..callede certeyne spirittes..superialle and inferialle. a1545Boorde Pronost. Prol. in Introd. Knowl., etc. (1870) 25 The son..illumynatynge as wel the inferyal planetes as y⊇ superyal planetes. 1547― Brev. Health lix. 26 b, A Canker, the whiche doth corode..the superial partes of the body. 1561Godly Queene Hester Prol. 11 Some..Affirmed honour dewly to pertayne..to power and superiall raigne. 1591Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 2 It is the proper and naturall mouing of the bodies superiall and celestial. 1719Jones in Toland Hist. Druids (1814) 240 There were in this land about a hundred superial Kings, that governed this land successively: that were of the British blood. ▪ II. suˈperial, a.2 nonce-wd. [f. super n. 3 a + -ial.] Pertaining to a theatrical ‘super’.
1885J. K. Jerome On the Stage 61 His madness did not interfere at all with his superial duties. |