a. nonce-wd. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Against nature, unnatural; infra-natural.
1839. De Quincey, Autobiog. Sk., Wks. 1863, XIV. 333 (D.). A visual object, falling under hyper-physical or cata-physical laws. Ibid., II. 143. Some artists … have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleasing and cataphysical, in fact a caricature of anything that is ever seen in nature.
