supersensuousn.adj.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) I. 267 Whatever is conscious Self-knowledge is Reason; and in this sense it may be safely defined the organ of the Supersensuous.

1899 F. P. Noble Redempt. Afr. I. i. iv. 119 Lull..thought it the glory of Christianity that it maintains not the undemonstrable but the supersensuous.

1922 J. J. Chapman Glance towards Shakespeare xiii. 94 The whole art and craft of sonnet-making was governed by ideas of the supersensuous which are vaguely attributed to the influence of Plato.

1993 D. Chapelle Nietzsche & Psychoanal. i. iv. 65 The unknowability of the supersensuous, posited as a first principle in the Kantian system, explodes that system.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 334 Spiritual truths and objects super-sensuous.

1851 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire III. xxix. 379 Their rejection of supersensuous theories went only to the denial of a resurrection of the body.

1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. iii. 91 Man is regarded as composed of a body, and of a single supersensuous nature, which is sometimes called life or soul, and sometimes spirit.

1876 Athenæum 16 Dec. 806/2 A remarkable case of supersensuous perception.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience 427 Mystical states merely add a supersensuous meaning to the ordinary outward data of consciousness.

2008 J. A. Barash Symbolic Constr. Reality Introd. p. xi Symbols stand for a higher, supersensuous idea, which sense images can only represent.

1842 J. Garbett Bampton Lect. I. iii. 264 A most subtle metaphysic, attractive to elevated minds, in this point, by its very supersensuousness.

1865 tr. D. F. Strauss New Life Jesus II. ii. xcvii. 414 On these words..the whole of the sensuous supersensuousness [Ger. sinnliche Uebersinnlichkeit] of that [sc. St John's] Gospel is distinctly stamped.

1895 tr. M. S. Nordau Degeneration ii. i. 61 The mixture of super-sensuousness and sensuality, of religious and amorous rapture, which characterizes mystic thought, has been noticed even by those observers who do not understand in what way it is brought about.

1986 W. Desmond Art & Absolute vi. 138 The requirement of being whole..is also applied..against the Kantian dualizing of man into a sharply separated sensuousness and supersensuousness.