Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated beyond the moon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
superlunar .
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- adjective
translunary .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unworldly or ethereal
- adjective situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Inside the stereoscope you see a pathway that leads first across the higher planes of being and then over the superlunary spheres and a feeling coalesces in you that this, this is a journey to be undertaken.
Superlative Land stephen hastings-king 2011
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Bacon's bi-quaternion theory necessarily refers to the sublunary as well as to the superlunary world.
Francis Bacon Klein, Juergen 2003
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There was, however, a possible basis for recon - ciliation in the astrological thesis that perfect regular - ity existed in the superlunary world and disorder in the sublunary.
NATURE GEORGE BOAS 1968
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It is in the superlunary world that the everlasting, the incorruptible, the unified is to be found.
NATURE GEORGE BOAS 1968
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Pico della Mirandola, in his Heptaplus, argued that man's “real” nature was to be found in his identification with some parts of the superlunary world, and by
NATURE GEORGE BOAS 1968
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The 1572 “comet” showed that change was occurring in the superlunary sphere where no change should be.
COSMIC FALL R. W. HEPBURN 1968
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We have the strongest possible doubts of the attributes usually ascribed to this authoress; and we think it more simple and manly to say so at once, than to admit nominally superlunary claims, which, in the progress of our remarks, we should virtually deny.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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The natural result of this habit of ascending to a superlunary home, was the loss of an exact sense of how she was behaving below.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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As for her superlunary sphere, it was in fragments; and she mused on the singularity, considering that she was not deeply enamoured.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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As for her superlunary sphere, it was in fragments; and she mused on the singularity, considering that she was not deeply enamoured.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
chained_bear commented on the word superlunary
"...besides, the news he had given me had galvanized my senses, and I was willing, for a while, to put all superlunary matters aside."
—Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 297
October 8, 2008