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supernal, a. (n.)|s(j)uːˈpɜːnəl|
Also 5–7 -all, 6 -al(l)e.
[a. OF. supernal (12th c., later supernel) = It. supernale, Pg. supernal, or ad. med.L. *supernālis, f. supernus supern: see -al1.]
A. adj.
1. That is above or on high; existing or dwelling in the heavens.
c1485Digby Myst. ii. 422 The hye god supernall. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxx. 9 O hie supernale Father of sapience. 1566Gascoigne & Kinwelmershe Jocasta i. i. 38 Desirous still to searche The hidden secrets of supernall powers. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 48 Thee do I craue, Priamus, by Gods almightye supernal. c1592Breton C'tess Pembroke's Passion lxxxv, He..sits on the supernall throne. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 112 That supernal Iudge that stirs good thoughts. 1634Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. xxi, Many degrees there are of celestial happiness... Those supernal mansions are not all of a height. 1649Ogilby tr. Virg. Georg. iv. (1684) 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. 1840K. H. Digby Mores Cath. x. Epil. (1847) III. 809/1 May the King of Angels lead us to the society of the supernal citizens. 1866Neale Sequences & Hymns 71 Laud to Him, to Whom Supernal Thrones and Virtues bend the knee. 1869Gladstone Juv. Mundi vii. (1870) 199 Not even those deities, who are omnipresent upon earth..are precisely informed as to what takes place in the supernal region. 1908Athenæum 30 May 662/2 The supernal gods, representing the growing powers of law and order.
2. Belonging to the realm or state above this world or this present life; pertaining to a higher world or state of existence; coming from above.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 303/1 He had mekenes in conuersacion, supernal doctryne in predicacion. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 1092 Our lorde hath shewed secretes mystycall To his electe persones by grace supernall. Ibid. 3215 The lockes and the barres..Fell downe..by power supernall. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 212 The three-fold plenitude of his [sc. the pope's] supernall, terrestriall, and infernall power. c1610Women Saints 70 The supernall pietie of god. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 573 God..Thither will send his winged Messengers On errands of supernal Grace. 1685Evelyn Mrs. Godolphin (1888) 219 To possess those Divine and supernall pleasures of doeing good. 1794Coleridge Religious Musings 92 By supernal grace Enrobed with Light, and naturalised in Heaven. 1850W. Irving Mahomet xxxviii. (1853) 189 He had made choice of supernal existence. 1903F. W. H. Myers Human Pers. I. 5 Supposed communications with a supernal world.
3. a. Situated in, or belonging to, the sky or upper regions; celestial, heavenly. Obs. or arch.
1503Hawes Examp. Virt. i. 6 With Saturne and Mercury that wer supernall. 1509― Past. Pleas. xxv. title, Of the hye influences of the supernall bodies. 1603Daniel Epistles Wks. (1717) 360 Like to those Supernal Bodies set Within their Orbs. a1797Mason Dufresnoy's Art of Painting 16 High o'er the stars you take your soaring flight, And rove the regions of supernal light. c1870Longfellow Dante's Paradiso xxiii. 30 Above the myriads of lamps, A Sun that one and all of them enkindled, E'en as our own doth the supernal sights.
b. Situated above or at the top, upper; above ground; high up, lofty in position. rare.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 132/2 Adde..a qu. of an ownce of redd Roses, of the supernalle summityes therof. 1806T. Maurice Indian Antiq. I. 106 The great similarity which prevails in the architecture, supernal and subterraneous. 1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall ii, Picking off the supernal fragments of an egg he had just cracked. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. i. i. 6 The mountain summits, grand, supernal.
4. High in rank or dignity, elevated, exalted.
1549–62Sternhold & H. Magnificat, He hath put downe the mightie ones From their supernall seate. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle etc. (1871) 125 Then downe she [sc. Fortune] thrustes from their supernall seat Princes & kings. 1845Carlyle Cromwell iv. I. 402 Dread Phantoms, glaring supernal on you.
5. Supremely great or excellent, ‘divine’.
1818Dwight Theol. (1830) I. ix. 188 Leaves and blossoms of supernal beauty. 1847Longfellow Ev. i. iii. 5 Glasses..Sat astride on his nose, with a look of wisdom supernal. 1899E. Markham Man with the Hoe, etc. 123, I know, Supernal Woman, Thou dost seek No song of man. 1907Westm. Gaz. 19 July 2/1 A lordly and supernal cake.
B. n. A supernal being. rare.
1755T. Amory Mem. (1769) I. 230 Every grove had its deity, or supernal who delighted in it. Ibid. 263 St. Nicholas is their third grand supernal. 1861I. Taylor Spir. Hebrew Poetry 340 If among the supernals [of Milton] the true sublime is attained, it is in hell, not in heaven.
Hence (nonce-wds.) suˈpernalist, one who believes in the existence of supernal beings (in quot. attrib. or as adj.); superˈnality, the quality of being supernal; in quot. with possessive, as a humorous title for a celestial being.
1892Athenæum 25 June 829/2 The conception of nature as inclusive of beings of a superhuman character, or the *Supernalist conception.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe G 4, Whereof their *supernalities..seemed to be something sorie. |