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superˈmundane, a.
[ad. med.L. supermundānus (Thomas Aquinas), f. super- super- 1 + mundus world: cf. mundane.]
1. Elevated in nature or character above what pertains to the earth or world; belonging to a region above the world.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 448 The Spirit of God is called by these Platonistes..the Supermundane soul of the Universe. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 546 The Platonists..had..several Distinctions amongst them concerning their Gods, as between..The Supermundane and the Mundane Gods. 1788T. Taylor Proclus I. 159 In a distribution of mundane and super-mundane figures, you will always find that the circle is of a diviner nature. 1818Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 309 Perhaps, in that super-mundane region, we may be amused with seeing the fallacy of our own guesses. 1855Milman Lat. Christ. xiv. ii. VI. 405 The triple and novene division ran throughout, and connected,..almost identified the mundane and supermundane Church. 1903H. B. Swete Stud. Teaching Our Lord v. 144 Life in a Divine Kingdom must have a supermundane source.
b. Humorously or ironically applied to what is ideal, fantastic, or chimerical.
1870H. Lonsdale Life R. Knox xiii. 248 He never could give countenance to the supermundane hypotheses of his friend Professor W. Macdonald. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 489 According to this super-mundane argument, the rule of the Southern States was justly given over to the armed minority.
2. Situated above the earth. rare.
1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 950 Heaven is in this case [Gen. viii. 20] supermundane..distinct from the earth.
Hence ˌsupermunˈdanity, something supermundane.
1843J. B. Robertson tr. Moehler's Symbol. II. 189 Earthly bonds cannot be, without violence,..at once, replaced by super-mundanities. |