ˌsupereˈssential, a.
[ad. late L. superessentiālis (cf. Gr. ὑπερούσιος), f. super- super- 4 a + essentia essence: see -al1. Cf. obs. F. superessentiel.]
That is above essence or being; transcending all that exists; = supersubstantial 2.
| 1587 Golding De Mornay iii. (1592) 28 God..is..the superessential Being, (that is to say, a Beeing which farre surmounteth, passeth, and excelleth all Beeings). 1614 Purchas Pilgrimage i. ii. (ed. 2) 9 That vncreated superessentiall light, the eternall Trinitie, commanded this light to be. 1683 Tryon Way to Health 145 This Internal Super-essential Water sustaineth every Beeing, and is the Radix and Life of the outward Water. 1789 T. Taylor Proclus II. 386 If the first deity is super-essential, but every god, so far as a god is of the first series, hence every god will be super-essential. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 96 No man could make an actual God of that super-essential ultimatum. 1902 Fairbairn Philos. Chr. Relig. i. iii. 102 God is super-essential, and can be expressed in no category. |
Hence ˌsupereˈssentially adv., in a manner or mode that transcends all being.
| 1789 T. Taylor Proclus II. 387 All things are contained in the gods, uniformly, and super-essentially. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. vi. v. 194 Dionysius writeth how God doth..superessentially surpass all images, modes, forms, or names that can be applied to Him. |