superliminary

Adjective

 * 1)  Preliminary, introductory.

Noun

 * 1)  The lintel across the top of a doorway.
 * 2) * 1633, George Herbert (author), John N. Wall Jr. (editor), "Superluminary," in George Herbert: The Country Parson, The Temple (Paulist Press, 1981), p. 137 note 88 (Google preview):
 * (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."
 * 1) * 1641, Edward Kellett, The Threefold Supper of Christ in the Night that He Was Betrayed, London, Thomas Cotes for Andrew-Crooke, p. 32 (Google preview):
 * 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.