单词 | preternaturalist |
释义 | preternaturalistn. rare. A person who believes in the preternatural. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > [noun] > one who believes in supernaturalist1640 supranaturalist1829 preternaturalist1868 1868 M. Collins Sweet Anne Page I. 93 The ladies were rather puzzled how to deal with this young præter-naturalist. 1999 S. Clark Thinking with Demons xii. 245 He still conceded that the experiments of a natural philosophy..might yield effects that were marvellous to the ignorant but true in nature—the classic apologia of the preternaturalist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1868 |
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