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translunary, a.|ˈtrɑːnsl(j)uːnərɪ, ˈtræns-, -nz-|
[f. trans- 3 + L. lūna moon, after lunary.]
Lying beyond or above the moon: the opposite of sublunary; chiefly fig., etherial, insubstantial, visionary.
1627Drayton Agincourt, etc., To H. Reynolds 206 Neat Marlow bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those braue translunary things. 1826Beddoes Let. Oct., Poems (1851) p. lviii, All my sublunary excursions this summer have been botanical; and my translunary ones..a thought or two for a didactic ‘Boem’..on myology. 1892Century Mag. June 183/2 A strayed visitor from some translunary sphere. 1902A. M. Clerke Probl. Astrophysics (1903) 2 The long-divorced sublunary and translunary worlds. |