a. rare. [f. L. suprā SUPRA- 1 a + terra land, earth; after subterraneous.] = SUPERTERRANEOUS.
1666. Phil. Trans., I. 186. The things, to be observ’d … may be … divided into Supraterraneous, Terrestrial, and Subterraneous.
a. 1900. Spruce, in B. D. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms, s.v., Supraterraneous Perianth.
So Supraterrestrial a. = SUPERTERRESTRIAL 1.
1887. Andover Rev., Jan., 42. She might find her first supraterrestrial experience in some dim subjacency of aromatic spiritual forest, in which she might smoke a spiritual pipe in peace.
1908. J. Orr, Resurrect. Jesus, vii. 198. That supraterrestrial sphere to which it [sc. Christ’s resurrection body] now more properly belonged.
