Definition of "supersensible"

The imagination, therefore, must furnish to religion and to metaphysics those large ideas tinctured with passion, those supersensible forms shrouded in awe, in which alone a mind of great sweep and vitality can find its congenial objects.

1900, George Santayana, chapter 1, in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion‎, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 6

[…] the patriotic zeal officially evinced by Claggart had somewhat irritated him as appearing rather supersensible and strained.

1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.