Meaning of superliminary | Babel Free

Definitions

The lintel across the top of a doorway.

obsolete, rare

Examples

“(Note 88) Superliminary. Title: Literally, above the threshhold, suggesting the lintel over the passageway between the church porch and the church proper; here, figuratively, the poem that is the passage from "The Church Porch" to "The Church."”

“I am sure this doore was besprinkled with blood, on all sides, before,and behind; his head, and his armes, as the superliminary, both sides of him, as the side-posts. and his feete as the threshold.”

“[I]t is related that at the same Time, and with the same trembling of the Earth, the Superliminary which is the lintel or superior Stone of the Gate of the Temple, fell down, and that the Angels that presided there were heard to say, Let us go hence.”

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