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Supernormal. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Supernormal a. [SUPER- 4 a.]

1   1.  Exceeding that which is normal.

2 1868.  W. R. Greg, Lit. & Soc. Judgm., 356. This vast amount of super-normal celibacy.

3 1910.  G. Tyrrell, Autobiog. (1912), I. iii. 33. This deafness is covered by the acquired, supernormal acuteness of the other ear.

4   2.  Applied to phenomena of an extraordinary or exceptional kind, involving a higher law or principle than those ordinarily occurring, but not necessarily supernatural. Also absol.

5 1885.  Myers, in Proc. Soc. Psych. Res., III. 30, note. I have ventured to coin the word ‘supernormal’ to be applied to phenomena which are beyond what usually happens…. By a supernormal phenomenon I mean,… one which exhibits the action of laws higher, in a psychical aspect, than are discerned in action in everyday life.

6 1886.  Times, 30 Oct., 9/4. The phenomena of mesmerism, of hypnotism, and of other abnormal or supernormal conditions of the human consciousness.

7 1898.  G. Tyrrell, in Month, Sept., 228. To justify those who refuse to go into alleged instances of the supernormal.

8   Hence Supernormally adv.

9 1895.  Daily News, 22 Nov., 4/7. Knowledge supernormally acquired.

10 1899.  A. Lang, Myth, Ritual, & Relig., xii. II. 23. I never hinted at morals divinely and supernormally revealed.

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