a. [f. TRANS- 4 + NATURAL.]
† 1. That is beyond the order of nature; more than natural; supernatural. Obs.
1569. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 70. Because they … are supposed to be aboue nature, therefore they call them transnaturall or Metaphisicke.
1697. J. Sergeant, Solid Philos., 248. Great Scholars puzzle their Wits to find out Natural Causes for divers Effects, the true Reason for which is only owing to Trans-natural ones. Ibid. (1700) (title) Transnatural Philosophy, or Metaphysicks.
2. Of which the nature is transmuted. nonce-use.
1907. E. H. Coleridge, C.’s Christabel, 29. The Geraldine of the First Part is a supernatural, of the Second Part a trans-natural being…. The idea … of the second Part is … physiological as well as mythological.
