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.
| 1727 Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead (1728) II. 47 Moses..described the Formation of all super-terrestrial and terrestrial Bodies. 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VI. 554 A confidence in super-terrestrial protection, and a belief in supernatural powers. 1846 De 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. 1865 tr. Strauss' New Life Jesus i. xlix. I. 422 The change into the superterrestrial state. |
2. = superterranean.
| 1875 Ld. Blachford in Life Ld. Coleridge (1904) II. ix. 252 Subterranean and superterrestrial operations. |