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Preterhuman

Preterhuman \Pre`ter*hu"man\, a. [Pref. preter- + human.] More than human.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
preterhuman

1803, from preter- + human (adj.).

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preterhuman

a. More than human.

Usage examples of "preterhuman".

Confident of being warned at need by his hearing, which was normally supersensitive and, when he was engaged as now, keyed to preterhuman acuteness, he went coolly about the business, and at his first step found a portable reading-lamp on a long cord and coolly switched on its hooded light.

They reach the raven-circled towers and are admitted by a swathed and closely cowled being, the Mysteriarch of Utressor, believed to be ageless, preterhuman, and possessed of demiurgic powers.