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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.

To treat or regard as supernatural.

In a supernatural manner.

The quality or state of being supernatural.

Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment.

Supraoccipital.

A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.

The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor. Fuller.

See Peroxide. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4. [Obs.] Hutton.

Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10. [Obs.] Hutton.

An acid phosphate. Superphosphate of lime (Com. Chem.), a fertilizer obtained by trating bone dust, bone black, or phosphorite with sulphuric acid, whereby the insoluble neutral calcium phosphate, Ca3(PO4)2, is changed to the primary or acid calcium phosphate Ca(H2PO4)2, which is soluble and therefore available for the…

Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws. Something superphysical and superchemical. J. Le Conte.