supernal
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
supernal
adj 1: being or coming from on high; "interpret the plague as a
visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the
sins of men" [ant: {infernal}]
2: of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal
melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death" [syn:
{celestial}, {ethereal}, {supernal}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Supernal \Su*per"nal\, a. [L. supernus, from super above: cf. F.
supernel. See {Super-}.]
1. Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the
supernal orbs; supernal regions. "That supernal judge."
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. Relating or belonging to things above; celestial;
heavenly; as, supernal grace.
[1913 Webster]
Not by the sufferance of supernal power. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "supernal":
Elysian, Olympian, aerial, airy, altitudinous, ascending, aspiring,
beatific, beatified, blessed, celestial, colossal, dominating,
elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, extramundane,
extraterrestrial, from on high, glorified, haughty, heavenly, high,
high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, in glory, lofty,
monumental, mounting, otherworldly, outtopping, overlooking,
overtopping, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisic,
prominent, soaring, spiring, steep, sublime, superlative, topless,
toplofty, topping, towering, towery, transcendental, transmundane,
unearthly, unworldly, uplifted, upreared
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