Among the Indians of California a girl at her first menstruation "was thought to be possessed of a particular degree of supernatural power, and this was not always regarded as entirely defiling or malevolent.
In the former case, the incarnation--commonly known as inspiration or possession--reveals itself in supernatural knowledge rather than in supernatural power.
Should I then say of God's commandment that I could not obey it without the aid of a supernatural power?
Since God declared the practice of his law to be easy, and himself practised it in human form, as did also his disciples, how dared I speak of the impossibility of obedience without the aid of a supernatural power?
Well, if this young person should all at once run and jump about as I have seen so many others do, would you not feel very happy, would you not at last acknowledge the intervention of a supernatural power?
I, who have ended by admitting that a supernatural power is at work here, I willingly admit that some cures must take place under natural conditions, thanks to that immersion in cold water which seems to us idiotic and barbarous.
In the reign of Vespasian we meet with a remarkable record of supernatural power, though it does not strictly fall under the head of magic.
Trithemius appears to have been the first writer who has made mention of the extraordinary feats of John Faust of Wittenburg, and that in a way that shews he considered these enchantments as the work of a supernatural power.
Both friends and enemies agreed that her career had been attended with a supernatural power.
He may be a demigod of supernatural power, half human, half divine.
The action of the story generally consists in a succession of contests in which is tested the hero's claim to supernatural power.
These acts involve such an exercise of supernatural power as may justly be put in comparison with his walking on the water.
Such a supernatural power is devoid of everything which presupposes a divine purpose, and of all evidential value.
Religion in some form enters into all the details of early life--there is no event that is not supposed to be caused or affected by a supernatural Power or influence.
Theories that derive it from the cult of some particular deity or regard it as primarily a day for placating a supernatural Power[996] may be set aside.
The theory of mana includes the belief that special supernatural power resides in the persons of tribal leaders, such as magicians, chiefs, priests.
By these experiments, in various countries, the pretension to a supernatural power of incombustibility has been reduced to its true level.
It may be observed, that all the animals to which particular superstitions are attached, were known to the ancients; whereas those discovered during the latter ages are free from imputation of supernatural power.
There is no species of supernatural power to which some impostor or other has not pretended; some to incombustibility; some to insubmergeability; some to invulnerability; some to invisibility.
I answer that, Some say that the Blessed Virgin cooperated actively in Christ's conception, both by natural and by a supernatural power.
But there are many other practical ways in which the idea of supernatural power is attached to fetiches.
In New Zealand, every Rangatira has a supernatural power.
To bring under calculation the quantity of supernatural powernecessary to the production of a given effect is no very easy task.
Assertions which have been made, that "the will is a supernatural power, independent of natural law" &c.
It is the chief cause of the belief that "the will is a supernatural power.
This limited degree of freedom of the will indicates the dependence of volition upon scientific laws, because a supernatural power, being entirely independent of natural law, could not be limited by it.
To affirm without proof that the human will is a "supernatural power" is to implicitly deny the universality and constancy of natural laws.
Winter is upon us, and you had better remain with me during the cold season, in the course of which I will reveal to you the secret of my supernatural power.
Take also this mink-skin tobacco-pouch, this black stone pipe, and my supernatural power.
Don't you recollect that he pretended the note through which Amelia has been absolved from her vow by her late Lord, to have been the effect of Hiermanfor's supernatural power?
I believe that apparition to have been effected by Hiermanfor's supernatural power," replied the Count after a short silence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supernatural power" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
