When we can barely illuminate our own world, it would be superstitious to imagine that dead men could do it for us.
For artists, that moral sensibility, superstitious or no, ought to be cranked to 11.
Their marriage had begun to suffer, and memories of the polio ballet loomed over the choreographer, known to be superstitious.
Historically, superstitious investors have feared the 10th month of the year.
They are superstitious, violent, passionate, mercurial, and secretive, with a greater belief in dragons than in any saint.
If I were superstitious or easily disheartened, I should say—but I am neither!
I trust I am not superstitious, but the vision had remained with me in all its tormenting detail.
Seamen, you know, are superstitious on the subject of corpses.
His usually courageous eyes were full of superstitious fear.
Her half-crazy, superstitious notion could only have been combatted by its non-realisation.
late 14c., from Old French superstitieux, from Latin superstitiosus, from superstitionem (nominative superstitio) "prophecy, soothsaying, excessive fear of the gods," perhaps originally "state of religious exaltation," related to superstes (genitive superstitis) "standing over or above," also "standing by, surviving," from superstare "stand on or over, survive," from super "above" (see super-) + stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). There are many theories for the Latin sense development, but none has yet triumphed.
