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supernal

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su·per·nal  (s-pûrnl)
adj.
1. Celestial; heavenly.
2. Of, coming from, or being in the sky or high above.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin supernus; see uper in Indo-European roots.]
su·pernal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.supernal - being or coming from on high; "interpret the plague as a visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the sins of men"
heavenly - of or belonging to heaven or god
infernal - being of the underworld; "infernal regions"
2.supernal - of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"
celestial, ethereal
heavenly - of or belonging to heaven or god
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The struggle to apprehend the supernal Loveliness -- this struggle, on the part of souls fittingly constituted -- has given to the world all that which it (the world) has ever been enabled at once to understand and to feel as poetic.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Come in thy lowest form of love, and I will kneel and kiss thee; but at thy highest, come as mere supernal power; and though thou launchest navies of full-freighted worlds, there's that in here that still remains indifferent.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
"It was all up with him," continued Aramis; "ah I much fear that with all your wisdom such mercy yet will prove supernal folly.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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