preternatural

Synonyymisanakirja

preternatural

yliluonnollinen, tuonpuoleinen, erikoinen, erikois-, tavallisuudesta poikkeava, epätavallinen, selittämätön.

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preternatural rimmaa näiden kanssa:

pascal, rial, trial, sial, kajal, sammal, laakasammal, rahkasammal, nukkasammal, maksasammal...

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Englannin sanakirja

preternatural englanniksi

1. beyond Beyond or not conforming to what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; abnormal.

2. 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.

3. 1882, w:George Edward Ellis|George Edward Ellis, The Red Man and the White Man in North America, http://books.google.ca/books?id=FU1CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA152&vq=preternatural&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1PPA152,M1 p. 152,

Doubtless there has been some exaggeration in the picturesque and fanciful relations of the almost preternatural skill and cunning of the Indian (..)

4. (quote-journal)|location=London|date=4 January 2014|page=R14|passage="w:Villette (novel)|Villette! Villette! wrote (w). "It is a still more wonderful book than (w). There is something almost preternatural in its power."

5. puhekieltä Having an existence outside of the natural world.

6. 1817, w:William Hazlitt|William Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespeares Plays, "s:Characters of Shakespeares Plays/Macbeth|Macbeth",

Macbeth is like a record of a preternatural and tragical event.

7. 1860, w:George Eliot|George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, s:The Mill on the Floss/Book 1/Chapter 11|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, ...

8. 1925, w:Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur Conan Doyle, "s:The Ring of Thoth|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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