The bones of the martyrs, their blood, their garments, were supposed to contain a healing power; and the praeternatural influence was communicated to the most distant objects, without losing any part of its original virtue.
The praeternatural origin of dreams was universally admitted by the nations of antiquity, and a considerable part of the Gallic army was already prepared to place their confidence in the salutary sign of the Christian religion.
As smoking is so prevalent here, this contributes much also to keeping the body in a praeternatural heat and rendering it still more obnoxious to cold on removal from a room to the open air.
In the play of Voltaire he is a rough brutal soldier, void of delicacy of feeling and not very scrupulous, but not that praeternatural deep designing villain that he is represented in the piece of Maffei.
It need only, however, be mentioned that it is to this early and most universal conception of praeternatural danger that the idea of sacrifice as well as of fasting must be ascribed.
Even were this not the etymology, the popularity of it would equally suggest the fact that this reptile was of old supposed to kill with its glance; and it was also generally regarded as gifted with praeternatural vision.
Only in the realms he could not yet conquer remained the hostile forces to which he ascribed praeternatural potency, because not able to pierce them and see through them.
In this loathsome creature, which seeks to prevent deliverance of 'the spirits in prison,' we may remark the sly and cruel eye: the praeternatural vision of such monsters was still strong in the traditions of the sixteenth century.
The king of Oude came to marry one of seven princesses, all possessing praeternatural powers, and questioned each as to her art.
Staniland Wake, [231] supposes the Serpent in India to have been there also the symbol of praeternatural and occult knowledge.
The care of children is often intrusted to them, and the appearance of mice prognosticated of old the appearance of the praeternatural rat-catcher and psychopomp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "praeternatural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
