| 单词 | superterrestrial |
| 释义 | superterrestrial, a.|ˌs(j)uːpətəˈrɛstrɪəl| [See super- 1 a and terrestrial.] 1. Existing, or belonging to a region, above the earth; celestial: = prec. 2. Also fig.
1727Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead (1728) II. 47 Moses..described the Formation of all super-terrestrial and terrestrial Bodies. 1798W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VI. 554 A confidence in super-terrestrial protection, and a belief in supernatural powers. 1846De Quincey Antig. Sophocles Wks. 1860 XIV. 203 Ever since the restoration of letters there has been a cabal,..for exalting as something super⁓terrestrial, and quite unapproachable by moderns, the monuments of Greek literature. 1865tr. Strauss' New Life Jesus i. xlix. I. 422 The change into the superterrestrial state. 2. = superterranean.
1875Ld. Blachford in Life Ld. Coleridge (1904) II. ix. 252 Subterranean and superterrestrial operations. |
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