▪ I. † suˈperial, a.1 Obs.
[ad. med.L. *superiālis, f. superus (see superior) or superius adv. higher. Cf. inferial.]
= superior a. in various senses.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 395 He..callede certeyne spirittes..superialle and inferialle. a 1545 Boorde Pronost. Prol. in Introd. Knowl., etc. (1870) 25 The son..illumynatynge as wel the inferyal planetes as y⊇ superyal planetes. 1547 ― Brev. Health lix. 26 b, A Canker, the whiche doth corode..the superial partes of the body. 1561 Godly Queene Hester Prol. 11 Some..Affirmed honour dewly to pertayne..to power and superiall raigne. 1591 Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 2 It is the proper and naturall mouing of the bodies superiall and celestial. 1719 Jones in Toland Hist. Druids (1814) 240 There were in this land about a hundred superial Kings, that governed this land successively: that were of the British blood. |
▪ II. suˈperial, a.2 nonce-wd.
[f. super n. 3 a + -ial.]
Pertaining to a theatrical ‘super’.
| 1885 J. K. Jerome On the Stage 61 His madness did not interfere at all with his superial duties. |