Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring or existing outside of the physical world or universe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being beyond the limit of the world; pertaining to a region not included in our world, in any world, or in the material universe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Beyond the material world.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Beyond
mundane , beyondordinary . - adjective
Extraterrestrial ; occurring or originating outside of theEarth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The answer seems to be, much of what makes for a nourishing existence: wide networks of kinship, respectful relations with nature, and a functional sense of the extramundane.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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The answer seems to be, much of what makes for a nourishing existence: wide networks of kinship, respectful relations with nature, and a functional sense of the extramundane.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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The answer seems to be, much of what makes for a nourishing existence: wide networks of kinship, respectful relations with nature, and a functional sense of the extramundane.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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The answer seems to be, much of what makes for a nourishing existence: wide networks of kinship, respectful relations with nature, and a functional sense of the extramundane.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem Eamon Murphy 2011
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He gradually prevailed over his antagonists, and his system recovered its former station; the scandal of mathematics disappeared, and the quackery of the square of the velocity was dismissed at last to the extramundane spaces, to the limbo of vanity, together with the monads which Leibnitz supposed to constitute the concentric mirror of nature, and also with his elaborate and fanciful system of
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It was the watering hole of a fair number of occultists and sensitives-psis like Di, who had mundane jobs and mundane lives, and extramundane interests.
Children Of The Night Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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The philosophic theologian and the Christianizing philosopher will rejoice to find in this proposition a point of reconciliation between the extramundane God of pure theism and the cardinal principle of
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Spinozism, the immanence of Deity in creation, -- a principle as dear to the philosophic mind as that of the extramundane Divinity is to the theologian.
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I was packin 'a couple of black eyes, the particulars of which is extramundane to this case, an' the barkeep, defendant here's alleged brother, asked certain pertinent an 'unmitigated questions concernin' the aforesaid black eyes.
Prairie Flowers 1921
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The opposition of the materialists is absolutely intelligent since it is clear that any man who has spent his life in saying "No" to all extramundane forces is, indeed, in a pitiable position when, after many years, he has to recognise that his whole philosophy is built upon sand and that "Yes" was the answer from the beginning.
The Vital Message 1919
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