a. [SUPER- 4 a.] = SUPERSENSUAL 1. Also absol. with the.
180910. Coleridge, Friend (1837), I. 209. Whatever is conscious self-knowledge is reason; and in this sense it may be safely defined the organ of the supersensuous. Ibid. (1825), Aids Refl. (1848), I. 276. Spiritual truths and objects super-sensuous.
1853. Merivale, Rom. Emp., xxix. (1865), III. 372. Their rejection of supersensuous theories went only to the denial of a resurrection of the body.
1872. Liddon, Elem. Relig., iii. 91. Man is regarded as composed of a body, and of a single supersensuous nature, which is sometimes called life or soul, and sometimes spirit.
1876. Athenæum, 16 Dec., 806/2. The President reported a remarkable case of supersensuous perception.
Hence Supersensuousness.
1865. trans. Strauss Life Jesus, II. II. xcvii. 414. On these words the whole of the sensuous supersensuousness [cf. SUPERSENSUAL 1, note] of that Gospel is distinctly stamped.