a. [See SUPER- 1 a and TERRESTRIAL.]

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  1.  Existing, or belonging to a region, above the earth; celestial: = prec. 2. Also fig.

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1727.  Earbery, trans. Burnet’s St. Dead (1728), II. 47. Moses … described the Formation of all super-terrestrial and terrestrial Bodies.

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1798.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., VI. 554. A confidence in super-terrestrial protection, and a belief in supernatural powers.

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1846.  De Quincey, Antig. Sophocles, Wks. 1860, XIV. 203. Ever since the restoration of letters there has been a cabal,… for exalting as something superterrestrial, and quite unapproachable by moderns, the monuments of Greek literature.

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1865.  trans. Strauss’ New Life Jesus, I. xlix. I. 422. The change into the superterrestrial state.

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  2.  = SUPERTERRANEAN.

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1875.  Ld. Blachford, in Life Ld. Coleridge (1904), II. ix. 252. Subterranean and superterrestrial operations.

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