a. [ad. late L. superessentiālis (cf. Gr. ὑπερούσιος), f. super- SUPER- 4 a + essentia ESSENCE: see -AL. Cf. obs. F. superessentiel.] That is above essence or being; transcending all that exists; = SUPERSUBSTANTIAL 2.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, iii. (1592), 28. God … is … the superessential Being, (that is to say, a Beeing which farre surmounteth, passeth, and excelleth all Beeings).
1614. Purchas, Pilgrimage, I. ii. (ed. 2), 9. That vncreated superessentiall light, the eternall Trinitie, commanded this light to be.
1683. Tryon, Way to Health, 145. This Internal Super-essential Water sustaineth every Beeing, and is the Radix and Life of the outward Water.
1789. T. Taylor, Proclus, II. 386. If the first deity is super-essential, but every god, so far as a god is of the first series; hence every god will be super-essential.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. 96. No man could make an actual God of that super-essential ultimatum.
1902. Fairbairn, Philos. Chr. Relig., I. ii. 102. God is superessential, and can be expressed in no category.
Hence Superessentially adv., in a manner or mode that transcends all being.
1789. T. Taylor, Proclus, II. 387. All things are contained in the gods, uniformly, and super-essentially.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. VI. v. 194. Dionysius writeth how God doth … superessentially surpass all images, modes, forms, or names that can be applied to Him.
