preterhuman

American  

[pree-ter-hyoo-muhn, -yoo-, pre-] / ˌpri tərˈhju mən, -ˈju-, ˌprɛ- /

adjective

1. beyond what is human.

   preterhuman experience.

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preterhuman British  

/ ˌpriːtəˈhjuːmən /

adjective

1. rare beyond what is human

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Etymology

Origin of preterhuman

First recorded in 1805–15; preter- + human

Example Sentences

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preterhuman

Another legend, of which I have not before heard, professed to give the origin both of the abnormal ferocity and of the preterhuman powers of Atotarho.

From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale

Despite her age—for she had passed into middle life before she had borne Pausanias—Alithea retained all the traces of a marvellous and almost preterhuman beauty.

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

In the legends which the Indian story-fellers recount in winter, about their cabin fires, Atotarho figures as a being of preterhuman nature, whose head, in lieu of hair, is adorned with living snakes.

From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale

In the legends which the Indian story-tellers recount in winter about their cabin fires, Atotarho figures as a being of preterhuman nature, whose head, in lieu of hair, is adorned with living snakes.

From Hiawatha and the Iroquois Confederation A Study in Anthropology. A Paper Read at the Cincinnati Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in August, 1881, under the Title of "A Lawgiver of the Stone Age." by Horatio Hale

He saw, it is true, the terrible danger with which the flight was connected, but he was comforted at thought of the preterhuman strength of Ursus.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin