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The act of sneezing. Quincy.

Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.

Sternutative. -- n.

The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

fically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.

A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.

Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.

Subalternate; successive.

The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.

A subordinate or assistant governor.

Like supernaculum; first-rate; as, a supernacular wine. [R.] Thackeray.

ded to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers. Nares. Drinking super nagulum [supernaculum], a device of drinking, new come out of France, which is, after a man hath turned up the bottom of the cup, to drop it on his nail and make a pearl with that is left; which if it slide, and he can not make it stand on by…

Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions. "That supernal judge." Shak.

Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water. SUPERNATANT Su`per*na"tant, n. (Chem.)

The act of floating on the surface of a fluid. Sir T. Browne.

Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous.

The quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalness.

One who holds to the principles of supernaturalism.

Of or pertaining to supernaturalism.

The quality or state of being supernatural.