supernatural virtue

To ascribe supernatural virtues to the skin of a snake, to a picture, or to a bound volume, is intellectually the same.

Like most supernatural virtues, it has a laic shadow; the counsel to abstain, and to be unsolicitous, is one not only of perfection, but also of polity.

When Dr. Newman was ordained in 1824, he has told us, he did not look on ordination as a sacramental rite, nor did he ascribe to baptism any supernatural virtue.

The paint was supposed to have supernatural virtue and caused an object to become invisible or invulnerable.

The forces that worked in nature were accordingly supernatural virtues, dominations, and powers; each natural thing had its supernatural incubus, a guardian angel, or a devil that possessed it.