a. [SUBTER- (3).] Below what is natural, less than natural.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 87. We must be content to call hypochondria subternatural, because the tone of the instrument is lowered.
1880. Gladstone, in W. O’Brien, Recoll. (1905), 262. The expression of subternatural glee which sits upon the visage of the hon. member for Cavan.
1890. Q. Rev., April, 296. Shakspere’s preternatural or subternatural creations.
