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superterrestrial

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated above the world; not of the earth, but superior to it; supermundane; superterrene. Also supraterrestrial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Above the Earth or earthly concerns.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ terrestrial

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Examples

  • In the silence/the solitude in isolation and loneliness you found your way to a superterrestrial harmony that only you understood with your superhuman dignity in your piece of life—back then

    Susanne Jorn greenintegerblog 2008

  • It is a superterrestrial, mass of five Earths, as confirmed by four moons, also yellowish.

    Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

  • Look, Imhotep is a superterrestrial planet, more than a third again the surface area of Daedalus-or Terra-not much less than that next to Woden, I'll bet.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • Then they said, "No, we do not believe it," and she admitted that an overworked clerk may save his soul in the superterrestrial sense, where the effort will be taken for the deed, but she denied that he will ever explore the spiritual resources of this world, will ever know the rarer joys of the body, or attain to clear and passionate intercourse with his fellows.

    Howards End 1924

  • Intellectual and the Intelligible are divided into triads, which are the superterrestrial gods.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Then they said, "No they did not believe it," and she admitted that an overworked clerk may save his soul in the superterrestrial sense, where the effort will be taken for the deed, but she denied that he will ever explore the spiritual resources of this world, will ever know the rarer joys of the body, or attain to clear and passionate intercourse with his fellows.

    Howards End Forster, E. M. 1910

  • And hence the mysterious superterrestrial character of such new harmonies as we find in the works of Wagner and

    Chopin and Other Musical Essays Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • Moreover there was something unearthly or superterrestrial about him, as if he had been born and brought up in the planet Saturn.

    Sketches from Concord and Appledore Frank Preston Stearns 1881

  • The whole moral appeal of the church rested on the superterrestrial world which it asserted and pictured.

    The Chief End of Man George Spring Merriam 1878

  • And finally, the sculpture of the west front, the Royal Portal, is the most beautiful, the most superterrestrial statuary ever wrought by the hand of man.

    The Cathedral 1877

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