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

I am aware that Peters was, both in strength and in agility, almost preterhuman; but fifty feet or thereabouts!

From A Strange Discovery by Dake, Charles Romyn

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 Hale, Horatio

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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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 Hale, Horatio

Here the thought of Ursus with his preterhuman power flashed into Vinicius's head; but what could be done by a man, even were he a Titan, against the destructive force of fire?

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