extramundaneadj.
/ɛkstrəˈmʌndeɪn/ 1.
a. Situated outside of the world; of or relating to a region outside of the world.
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the world > the universe > space > [adjective]
apogeana1644
ultramundane1656
extramundane1661
super-aerial1664
outworldish1674
unterrestrial1745
transmundane1777
extra-terrene1843
cosmical1849
extra-telluric1868
extra-terrestrial1868
exterrestrial1870
cosmic1876
extra-tellurian1881
supermundane1883
Uranian1908
contraterrene1946
space-borne1952
space-borne1967
spacy1967
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xvi. 150 'Tis a Philosophy, that..gives the exactest Topography of the Extramundane spaces.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 175 One [opinion] placeth paradise in the extra-mundane regions.
1745 E. Young Consolation 76 Where, rears His terminating Pillar high Its extra-mundane Head?
1879 S. Newcomb & E. S. Holden Astron. for Schools & Coll. 376 Aerolites..were proved to be of extramundane origin.
b. figurative (nonce-uses). ‘Out of the world’, remote; of or relating to things not of this world.
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1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 325 What may be called an extramundane zeal.
1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 652 Babbling of poetry in this extra-mundane island.
1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 310 The asseverations in the book are so preposterous..and the dreams so extramundane.
2. Situated outside or beyond the universe; of or relating to what is beyond the universe.
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the world > the universe > space > [adjective] > beyond the universe
extramundane1706
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > existing beyond the universe
extramundane1825
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Extramundane space, i.e. the infinite empty void Space, which is supposed by some to reach beyond the Bounds of the Universe.
1717 S. Clarke tr. G. W. Leibniz in Papers between Leibnitz & Clarke 17 The same reason, which shows that extramundane Space [Fr. l'Espace hors du monde] is imaginary, proves, etc.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 161 The independent (extra-mundane) existence..of the supreme one.
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