superlunar

His predecessor Maimonides had claimed that no valid inference can be drawn from the nature of the sublunar sphere to that of the superlunar sphere.

Gersonides Rudavsky, Tamar 2007

Thanks to it certain events in the sky — the outburst of new stars (the Novae of 1572 and 1604) and the passing of comets, introducing change in the immutable superlunar heaven — created a sensation and excited discussions.

COSMIC IMAGES H 1968

There was the duality, unacceptable to a rigorous mind, of the incorruptible superlunar spheres and of the impure sublunar sphere of the Earth subject to change, this very Earth which paradoxically formed the center of the whole system, i.e., usurped what was, for the spontaneous imagina - tion, the place of honor.

COSMIC IMAGES H 1968

"Sure, madam," I returned, with a _congée_; "and is it not rather a compliment that I so willingly forfeit a superlunar bliss in order to retain the pleasure of your society?"

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

Maimonides does not regard the sublunar and superlunar worlds as independent of each other.

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

God and the corporeal objects of the superlunar and sublunar worlds, called angels in the Bible, and secondary causes by the philosophers.

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

Latin, French, Technical, Slang, American, or Lunar, or altogether superlunar, transcendental, and drawn from the eternal nowhere -- he uses it with a courage which might blast an academy of lexicographers into a

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899