Definition of "supernal" []

• Celestial; heavenly. (adjective)
• Of, coming from, or being in the sky or high above. (adjective)

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• "We call the supernal lights fixed, yet they wander about yonder plain, and if"
• "We call the supernal lights fixed, yet they wander about yonder plain, and if I look again where I looked an hour ago, the face of the eternal heavens is altered."
• "The second obvious element in Shelley's poetry is his love of beauty, not the common beauty of nature or humanity which Wordsworth celebrated, but a strange "supernal" beauty with no "earthly" quality or reality."