a. [ad. late L. superterrēnus: see SUPER- 1 a and TERRENE.]

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  1.  = SUPERTERRANEAN.

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1709.  T. Robinson, Nat. Hist. Westmoreld., iv. 23. The Division of the Waters … was made into Waters subterrene, superterrene, and nubiferous.

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a. 1874.  De Morgan, Budget Parad. (1872), 137. Gutta percha and Rowland Hill are the great discoveries of our day:… gutta percha being to the submarine post what Rowland Hill is to the super-terrene.

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1881.  G. Milner, Country Pleas., xxi. 105. Some far-off æon when your progenitors nested or herded in such a superterrene covert.

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  2.  Existing or dwelling in a region above the earth; belonging to a higher world: = next, 1.

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1755.  Smollett, Quix., I. III. xii. 178. I am positive it began with ‘subterrene and sublime princess!’ It could not be subterrene, said the barber, but superterrene or sovereign.

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1866.  Mill, in Edin. Rev., CXXIII. 328. The gods … must live in the perpetual contemplation of these glorious and superterrene existences.

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