Obs. [ad. med.L. *superiālis, f. superus (see SUPERIOR) or superius adv. higher. Cf. inferial.] = SUPERIOR a. in various senses.

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1432–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), III. 395. He … callede certeyne spirittes … superialle and inferialle.

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a. 1545.  Boorde, Pronost., Prol. in Introd. Knowl., etc. (1870), 25. The son … illumynatynge as wel the inferyal planetes as ye superyal planetes. Ibid. (1547), Brev. Health, lix. 26 b. A Canker, the whiche doth corode … the superial partes of the body.

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1561.  Godly Queene Hester, Prol. 11. Some … Affirmed honour dewly to pertayne … to power and superiall raigne.

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1591.  Sparry, trans. Cattan’s Geomancie, 2. It is the proper and naturall mouing of the bodies superiall and celestial.

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1719.  Jones, in Toland, Hist. Druids (1814), 240. There were in this land about a hundred superial Kings, that governed this land successively: that were of the British blood.

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