a. [SUPER- 4.] That is above, or beyond the scope of, reason; higher than what is rational. So Superrationally adv.
1683. E. Hooker, Pref. Pordage’s Mystic Div., 66. The veri Spirit of the Mind is elevated, supersensualy and superrationaly sublimed.
1752. Law, Spir. Love, II. (1816), 111. A religion not grounded in the power and nature of things, is unnatural, supernatural, or superrational.
1826. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 38. I should think it more correct to describe the mysteries of faith as plusquam rationalia than superrational.
1890. J. Martineau, Seat Author. in Relig., IV. i. 316. This communicated idea, being super-rational, plants the Supreme Good beyond the range of all philosophy.
1891. Meredith, One of our Conq., III. x. 192. Reason took a superrational leap.
