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Superphysical

Superphysical \Su`per*phys"ic*al\, a. Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.

Something superphysical and superchemical.
--J. Le Conte.

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superphysical

a. Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.

Usage examples of "superphysical".

Crookes was filled from his youth with a longing to find by empirical means the bridge leading from the world of physical effects to that of superphysical causes.

Accordingly, everything combined to suggest to Crookes that here, if anywhere, he was at the boundary between the physical and the superphysical worlds.

It is only by its interactions with gravity that levity brings about events in the physical world-events, however, which are themselves partly of a physical, partly of a superphysical kind.

Normally a definite spiritual type co-ordinates the dynamic functions present in the superphysical sphere of nature in the manner required to give the plant-organism its appropriate form.

Marillier dwelt on this thought, in spite of his reluctance to look at the fetich and ascertain for himself how much of life and power remained in it, a sense of superphysical elation filled him.

Pelamon is very susceptible to the influence of the superphysical, and is probably far more of a psychic than the majority of those who earn their living as professional mediums.

He could detect the presence of the superphysical both in the atmosphere and also in the shadows.