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adj. - Being or coming from on high adj. - Of heaven or the spirit.

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  • Interpret the plague as a visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the sins of men
  • 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.
  • Even if they had shown a pristine 35 print on 40-foot-high silver using a brand-new bulb, it wouldn't have looked "supernal" in the least.
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