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'''supernatural''': Existing or occurring through some agency

'''supernatural''': Existing or occurring through some agency

<ref name=agent>'''agency''': Active power or operation; activity; means; instrumentality; the function of an agent. [< L ''agentia'' < ''agere'' to do]<br/>'''agent''': One who or that which acts or has the power to act, contrasted to ''patient''; an efficient [[Cause and effect|cause of anything]]; actor (that which acts or that which produces action); doer; any force, substance, or organism that causes a material change; a means by which something is done; instrument (instrumentality of). [< L ''agens, agentis,'' ppr. (present participle) of ''agere'' to do]</ref>

<ref name=agent>'''agency''': Active power or operation; activity; means; instrumentality; the function of an agent. [< L ''agentia'' < ''agere'' to do]<br/>'''agent''': One who or that which acts or has the power to act, contrasted to ''patient''; an efficient [[Cause and effect|cause of anything]]; actor (that which acts or that which produces action); doer; any force, substance, or organism that causes a material change; a means by which something is done; instrument (instrumentality of). [< L ''agens, agentis,'' ppr. (present participle) of ''agere'' to do]</ref>

beyond the known forces of nature; lying outside the natural order; above nature; distinguished from ''[[preternatural]]'' <ref name=preter>'''preternatural''': diverging from or exceeding the common order of nature, but not outside the natural order; distinguished from ''supernatural''.

beyond the known forces of nature; lying outside the natural order; above nature; distinguished from ''[[preternatural]]'';<ref name=preter>'''preternatural''': diverging from or exceeding the common order of nature, but not outside the natural order; distinguished from ''supernatural''.

<br/>[< L ''praeter'' beyond < ''prae'' before (in the forefront of, chief, prominent, preeminent, exalted) preter- + natural < F ''naturel'' < L ''naturalis'' < ''natura'', nature, character]</ref>; believed to be miraculous or caused by the immediate exercise of divine power; pertaining to the miraculous.

<br/>[< L ''praeter'' beyond < ''prae'' before (in the forefront of, chief, prominent, preeminent, exalted) preter- + natural < F ''naturel'' < L ''naturalis'' < ''natura'', nature, character]</ref> believed to be miraculous or caused by the immediate exercise of divine power; pertaining to the miraculous.

<br/>[< Med.L (from Medieval Latin) < L ''super''- above + ''natura'' nature]

<br/>[< Med.L (from Medieval Latin) < L ''super''- above + ''natura'' nature]

:Philosophical naturalists understand the meaning of "supernatural" as "not natural", as "not existing", "not part of Existence".

:Philosophical naturalists understand the meaning of "supernatural" as "not natural", as "not existing", "not part of Existence".