Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being above the world; superior to the world or earthly things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being above the world; -- opposed to
inframundane .
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- adjective Above or beyond the
mundane .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The mundane is becoming so much more supermundane . . . school, family, etc.
Jay's Journal Dr. Beatrice Sparks 2010
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Black hilltops are as islands jutting out from a grey supermundane sea.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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Under Plato Socratic teaching blossomed into a grandiose metaphysics, affirming the eternity of the soul and its supermundane destiny.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas FERNAND-LUCIEN MUELLER 1968
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We are continually overshadowed by this supermundane existence.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield
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I had just urged on him my theory that all those phenomena regarded as supermundane had emanated from a human brain; adducing the charm, or rather curse, we had found and destroyed in support of my philosophy.
The Haunted and the Haunters: Or the House and the Brain 1921
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The emphatic affirmation of a supermundane, spiritual order of reality and the equally emphatic assertion of the caducity of things material fitted in with the essentially Christian contention that spiritual interests are supreme.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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This older idealism teaches, not that there is One-All, but that there is an alpha and omega, i.e. a supermundane Cause and End, of the world.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Three weeks after, you find that it was a clear voice from the supermundane, a high revelation.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Even Fielding was shaken out of his supermundane quietism.
The Philanderers 1906
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Disciples, or the hidden and mystic gaze of the beloved and divinely sweet of the disciples, or the supermundane theology of Jesus; and implanted them in the holy and Godlike instructions of the mystic rites.
Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897
Gammerstang commented on the word supermundane
(adjective) - (1) Elevated in nature or character above what pertains to the earth or world; belonging to a region above the world. Humorously or ironically applied to what is ideal, fantastic, or chimerical. Situated above the earth. Adapted from Medieval Latin supramunda by Thomas Aquinas.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1919
(2) Perhaps, in that supermundane region, we may be amused with seeing the fallacy of our own guesses.
--Thomas Jefferson's Writings, 1818
January 16, 2018