From the ArcaMax Publishing, Vocabulary Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/vocabulary/s-371080-154947
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."