Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Below nature: infranatural; hypophysical.
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- adjective physics Describing
spectroscopic lines that are narrower than produced naturally
Etymologies
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Examples
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Panama, for instance, is not natural, but subnatural, and must be brought up to its divine nature, when it will serve the children of God.
Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Henry Sloane Coffin 1915
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A photograph, if it could render them perfectly, and in color, would far excel the charm of this painting; for in it, good and clever as it is, there is nothing supernatural, and much that is subnatural.
Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving John Ruskin 1859
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If his primitive state was his natural state, and if the political state is supernatural, preternatural, or subnatural, how passed he alone, by his own unaided powers, from the former to the latter?
The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny Orestes Augustus Brownson 1839
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