{"id":13970,"date":"2018-01-26T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13970"},"modified":"2018-01-26T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:56:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/26\/word-of-the-day-311\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Preternatural<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"beyond\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/beyond\">Beyond<\/a> or not <a title=\"conform\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/conform\">conforming<\/a> to what is natural or <a title=\"accord\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/accord\">according<\/a> to the <a title=\"regular\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/regular\">regular<\/a> <a title=\"course\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/course\">course<\/a> of things; <a title=\"strange\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/strange\">strange<\/a> <span class=\"HQToggle\"><a>quotations\u00a0\u25bc<\/a><\/span>\n<dl>\n<dd><span class=\"nyms synonyms\"><b><a title=\"Wiktionary:Semantic relations\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Wiktionary:Semantic_relations\">Synonyms<\/a><\/b>: <span class=\"Latn\" lang=\"en\"><a title=\"inexplicable\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/inexplicable#English\">inexplicable<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"Latn\" lang=\"en\"><a title=\"extraordinary\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/extraordinary#English\">extraordinary<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"Latn\" lang=\"en\"><a title=\"abnormal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/abnormal#English\">abnormal<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ib-brac\">(<\/span><span class=\"ib-content\"><a title=\"Appendix:Glossary\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Appendix:Glossary#dated\">dated<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ib-brac\">)<\/span> Having an <a title=\"existence\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/existence\">existence<\/a> outside of the <a title=\"natural\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/natural\">natural<\/a> world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In modern secular use, refers to extraordinary but still natural phenomena, as in \u201cpreternatural talent\u201d. In religious and occult usage, used similarly to <a title=\"supernatural\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/supernatural#English\">supernatural<\/a>, meaning \u201coutside of nature\u201d, but usually to a lower level than supernatural \u2013 it can be used synonymously (identical to supernatural), as a hyponym (a kind of supernatural), or a coordinate term (similar to supernatural, but a distinct category). For example, in Catholic theology, preternatural refers to properties of creatures like angels, while supernatural refers to properties of God alone<em>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/preternatural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wiktionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/paloma\/daily-202\/2018\/01\/25\/daily-202-trump-surprises-his-lawyers-and-alarms-his-friends-by-saying-he-will-talk-with-mueller\/5a69487330fb0469e8840390\/?undefined=&amp;utm_term=.3ba4e77196c9&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noted<\/a> in <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s <em><strong>PowerPost<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The president\u2019s proclamation reflects his preternatural self-confidence that he can talk his way out of any pickle. <\/strong>He insists he\u2019s done nothing wrong, and he recognizes the bad optics of refusing to cooperate. Perhaps he thinks he can publicly convey support for transparency, even as he privately drags his feet, puts up roadblocks and makes demands that Mueller won\u2019t agree to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preternatural: Beyond or not conforming to what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange quotations\u00a0\u25bc Synonyms: inexplicable, extraordinary, abnormal (dated) Having an existence outside of the natural world. In modern secular use, refers to extraordinary but still natural phenomena, as in \u201cpreternatural talent\u201d. 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