a. Obs. Forms: 5–6 superne, 8 supern. [a. OF. superne (= It., Sp., Pg. superno) or ad L. supernus, f. super over, above.]
1. = SUPERNAL 1.
c. 1480. Henryson, Prayer for Pest, 65, Poems (S.T.S.), III. 167. Superne lucerne, guberne this pestilens.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, lxxxv. 1. Haile, sterne superne! Haile, in eterne.
1508. Fisher, 7 Penit. Ps. cii. Wks. (1876), 177. They semed … very apte … vnto the superne & celestyall Iherusalem.
a. 1568. The Sterne is Rissin, 30, in Dunbar’s Poems (S.T.S.), II. 329. To the superne eternall regioun.
2. = SUPERNAL 3 b. rare.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 12. Walking-places, whose supern part … is … supported by Columns.
