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supersubstantial, a.|ˌs(j)uːpəsəbˈstænʃəl|
[ad. late L. supersubstantiālis (Vulgate), f. super- super- 4 a + substantia substance: see -al1. Cf. F. sursubstantiel († -ciel), It. soprassustanziale, Sp., Pg. supersubstancial.]
1. In allusion to, or as a rendering of, late L. supersubstantialis in the Vulgate version of Matt. vi. 11 (translating Gr. ἐπιούσιος, which is now generally held to mean ‘pertaining to the coming day’): Above or transcending material substance; spiritual: esp. in reference to the eucharistic bread.
Cf. Wycl. Bible Matt. vi. 11 Oure breed ouer other substaunce.
1534More Treat. Passion Wks. 1342/2 That heauenlye and supersubstancyall breadde and cuppe, beyng consecrate with that solemne benediction, is profitable to the lyfe and saluacyon of the whole man. 1550Veron Godly Sayings (1846) 78 In y⊇ Lords praier..we say: give us the supersubstancial bread, not this bread that gooeth intoo the body; but that bread of everlastyng life, which upholdeth the substance of our soule. 1555Cranmer in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. xxx. 236, I have sinned..against men, whom I have called from this supersubstantial morsel. 1609Bible (Douay) Exod. xvi. comm., It is our way-faring special provision, dailie and supersubstantial bread, til we shal possesse the promised land. 1665Wither Lord's Prayer 110 By preferring the meat that perisheth before that super-substantial Bread of Life which came from Heaven. 1852J. Brown Disc. & Say. Our Lord I. iv. 245 Give us the supersubstantial bread—the bread of life. 1899Fr. Dolling in C. E. Osborne Life x, The Body and Blood of Christ Himself, our daily supersubstantial bread.
2. Above or transcending all substance or being; = superessential: chiefly of God.
1534More Treat. Passion Wks. 1339/2 Thys..woorde Godde, signifyeth..not onelye the vnitie of the Godheadde, but also the trinitie of the three persones, and not onely theyr supersubstaunciall substance, but also euery gracious propertie. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xiii. lxxviii. (1612) 321 Locall vnlocally each wheare, super-substantiall, who Knows all that was, is, and is not. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 90 They saw a Starre, with five Beames... 1. Materiall, the Starre in the East: 2. Spirituall, the Starre of Faith, in their hearts. 3. Intellectuall, an Angel in a Dreame: 4. Rationall; the Virgin Marie; 5. Supersubstantiall; Christ himselfe. 1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. ii. vi. 181 Three persons in the supersubstantiall Divinity. 1855Milman Lat. Christ. xiv. ii. (1864) IX. 63 He is the Thearchic Intelligence, the Supersubstantial Being.
Hence ˌsupersubstantiˈality (rare—0); † ˌsupersubˈstantially adv., in a supersubstantial manner (in quot. in sense 2). So ˌsupersubˈstantiate v. [after transubstantiate] trans., to make supersubstantial.
1606T. Whetenhall Disc. Abuses Ch. Christ 18 To super⁓substantiat the blessed bread of the Lords Supper into the cursed Idoll of the Popes masse. 1611Florio, Soprasostantialità, supersubstantiality. 1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. iii. v. 356 Belief which is a true faith, is super⁓substantially above all science and understanding conjoyning us immediately to God. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. App. C. (1858) I. 382 Fluids and ethers..to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and (as it were) super-substantiated. |