Vocabulary - Today's Word "preternatural"

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Today's Word "preternatural"

preternatural \pree-tuhr-NACH-uhr-uhl; -NACH-ruhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Existing outside of nature; differing from the natural; nonnatural. 2 : Surpassing the usual or normal; extraordinary; abnormal. 3 : Beyond or outside ordinary experience; inexplicable by ordinary means.

"New Rome was busy with other matters, such as the petition for a formal definition on the question of the Preternatural Gifts of the Holy Virgin..." -- Walter M. Miller, 'A Canticle for Leibowitz"

Preternatural derives from the Latin phrase praeter naturam, "beyond nature."

This news arrived on: 06/30/2008

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