super semina tort (super semi nat or)

[ The scientific mind and the logical mind, when turned towards the supersensible world, are apt to find the same difficulty, only in a much greater degree, as they find in dealing with objects of imagination, or with pure emotions. J. C. Shairp, Culture and Religion, p. 113. II. n. The addre of a letter; superscription. Shak ., L. L. L., iv. 2. 135. superscription (sū-per-skrip's hon), n. [ superscription = It. soprascrizione , super scriptio (n-), a writing above, 〈 supers crib ere , write over: see superscribe .] 1. The act of superscribing.-2. That which is written or engraved on the outside of or above something supersensibly (sū-per-sen'si-bli), adv . In a else; especially, an addre on a letter. The superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Mark xv. 26, IMG:content-2508.png:[blocks in formation] supersensible manner. A. B. Alcott, Tablets, p. 16. supersensitive (sū-per-sen'si-tiv), a. Exce ively sensitive; morbidly sensitive. superseculart (sū-per-sek'ū-lär), a. Being above the world or secular things. Bp. Hall. pen. supersede (su-per-sed'), v. t.; pret. and pp. su perseded, ppr. superseding. [OF. superseder, super ceder, F. superséder (vernacularly OF. and F. surseoir ), leave off, desist, delay, defer, supersedere, sit upon or above, preside, also, in a deflected use, commonly with the abl., desist from, refrain from, forbear, omit, ML. also postpone, defer, In this genuine acceptation of chance, here is nothing supposed that can supersede the known laws of natural motion. Bentley, Boyle Lectures, Sermon v. It is a sad sight to see these political schemers, with their clumsy mechanisms, trying to supersede the great laws of existence. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 322. 2. To be placed in or take the room of; displace; supplant; replace: as, an officer super seded by another. A black and savage atrocity of mind, which supersedes in them the common feelings of nature. Burke , Rev. in France. One deep love doth supersede All other. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxxii. supersedeas (sū-per-se'de-as), n. [So called from this word in the writ: L. supersedeas , 2d pers. sing. pres. subj. of supersedere , forbear: see supersede .] 1. In law , a writ having in general the effect of a command to stay, on good cause shown, some ordinary proceedings which ought otherwise to have proceeded. A writ of supersedeas was i ued to prevent the meeting of parliament, and the city was filled with the armed fol IMG:content-2509.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2510.png:[blocks in formation] This definite line embraced all that ma of actual or alleged instances in which the mind of one person has been impre ed by that of another through supersensory channels, or at least in a way which could not be accounted for by the ordinary modes of communication through the senses. New Princeton Rev., IV. 274.