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Definition of Supernatural being
1. Noun. An incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events.
Generic synonyms: Belief
Group relationships: Occult, Supernatural
Specialized synonyms: Deity, Divinity, God, Immortal, Aeon, Eon, Angel, Faerie, Faery, Fairy, Fay, Sprite, Disembodied Spirit, Spirit, Trickster
Specialized synonyms: God, Supreme Being, Beelzebub, Devil, Lucifer, Old Nick, Prince Of Darkness, Satan, The Tempter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supernatural Being
Literary usage of Supernatural being
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"Made to paddle under water supernatural being wahai ehe' supernatural being. ...
He received the power of restoring to life from the supernatural being. 2. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the highest religions, this supernatural Being is conceived as a spirit, one
and indivisible, everywhere present in nature; but distinct from it. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In the highest religions, this supernatural Being is conceived as a spirit, one
and indivisible, everywhere present in nature; but distinct from it. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In the highest religions, this supernatural Being is conceived as a spirit, one
and indivisible, everywhere present in nature; but distinct from it. ..."
5. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1908)
"However, in proportion as a supernatural being comes more and more to occupy the
thoughts of its worshippers and to stir their imagination, a more distinct ..."
6. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edvard Westermarck (1908)
"... and religion is in its essence mystery. more and more to occupy the thoughts
of its worshippers However, in proportion as a supernatural being comes and ..."
7. The Self-revelation of God by Samuel Harris (1886)
"Man is a supernatural being. As endowed with reason and free will and susceptible
of rational motives he is a personal being and as such above nature or ..."
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