Of or pertaining to metaphysic or metaphysics; in a loose sense, philosophical; hence, highly abstruse; apart from ordinary or practical modes of thought.Relating to real being, and not merely to appearance; transcendental; hence, pertaining to unverifiable hypotheses.Pertaining to abstractions, or modes thought of as objects, and named as if they were things; abstract.Preternatural or supernatural.A whole of comprehension, or a logical term conceived as compounded of its predicates.A whole of comprehension in a more general sense; a natural whole; any whole in which the subject is viewed as the whole of which the predicates are parts.