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源自拉丁語 preternātūrālis/praeternātūrālis,源自praeter nātūram,源自praeter (超越) + nātūra (自然),對比supernatural

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preternatural (比較級 more preternatural最高級 most preternatural)

  1. 怪異的,異常
    近義詞:inexplicableexceptionalextraordinaryabnormaluncanny
    • 1815, William Shearman, New Medical and Physical Journal:
      I have employed cold air, and very often spongings with cold water, in order to moderate the preternatural heat of the skin, and to check the increased velocity of the circulation.
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    • 1882, George Edward Ellis, The Red Man and the White Man in North America152:
      Doubtless there has been some exaggeration in the picturesque and fanciful relations of the almost preternatural skill and cunning of the Indian []
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    • 2014年1月4日, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, 「The other Charlotte Brontë girl [online version (3 January 2014): Why Villette is better than Jane Eyre: Everybody knows Jane Eyre, but Charlotte Brontë's greatest and most original novel was her last, Villette]」, 出自 The Daily Telegraph[1], London,第 R14 頁:
      "Villette! Villette! wrote George Eliot。"It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."
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    • 2018, 「Quintessential Deckerstar」, 出自 Lucifer:
      D.B. Woodside as Amenadiel: "Something Charlotte said made me think. Maybe celestial beings and humans, Luci maybe they aren't that different."
      Tom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar: "What, are we talking in bed? 'Cause we know all know my skills are preternatural. But I suppose you on the other hand..."
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  2. (過時) 超自然
    近義詞:paranormalsupernaturalunnatural
    • 1817, William Hazlitt, 「Macbeth」, 出自 Characters of Shakespeare's Plays:
      Macbeth is like a record of a preternatural and tragical event.
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    • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book 1, Chapter 11:
      Not Leonore, in that preternatural midnight excursion with her phantom lover, was more terrified than poor Maggie in this entirely natural ride on a short-paced donkey, [...]
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    • 1925, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Ring of Thoth:
      Vansittart Smith, fixing his eyes upon the fellow's skin, was conscious of a sudden impression that there was something inhuman and preternatural about its appearance.
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  • 現代的一般用法中,指的是奇怪但是仍屬自然範疇內的現象,比如「preternatural talent」。而在宗教或玄學用法中,和supernatural類似,指「超自然的」,但相較於supernatural較為低級 – 其能作它的同義詞,下義詞或同類詞。比如在天主教神學中preternatural用來形容天使一類生物,而supernatural只用來形容神。

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拉丁語 praeternaturālis

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preternatural m f (陽性和陰性複數 preternaturals)

  1. 怪異的,異常

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  • 斷字:pre‧ter‧na‧tu‧ral

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preternatural m f (複數 preternaturais)

  1. 怪異的,異常

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  • 國際音標(幫助): /pɾeteɾnatuˈɾal/ [pɾe.t̪eɾ.na.t̪uˈɾal]
  • 韻部:-al
  • 斷字:pre‧ter‧na‧tu‧ral

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preternatural (複數 preternaturales)

  1. 怪異的,異常

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