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ultramundane, n. and a.|ʌltrəˈmʌndeɪn|
[ad. late L. ultrāmundānus, f. ultrā beyond + mundus the world. Cf. F. ultramondain, Sp. ultra-, It. oltramundano.]
†A. n. pl. Matters lying outside the physical world; metaphysics. Obs.—1
1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly M ij, He had spent whole xxxvi yeeres togethers in studiyng the Phisicals and Vltra⁓mundans of Duns and Aristotle.
B. adj. Lying beyond or outside of the world; of or belonging to things beyond the limits of the solar system.
1656Blount Glossogr., Ultramundane,..supercelestial, beyond or above the sky. Dr. Charl. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl., Occas. Medit. 35 A Faculty.. by whose help the restless mind..roves about in the ultra-mundane spaces, and considers how farr they reach. 1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 180 They will needs conceit there is some Ultra⁓mundane kind of Thing existent out of the world. 1807Edin. Rev. X. 147 The particles by which this effect is brought about, are called by Le Sage..the ultramundane atoms. 1845J. H. Newman in Ward Life (1912) iii. I. 80 He dies a Pantheist denying that there is an Ultramundane God. 1876P. G. Tait Rec. Adv. Phys. Sci. (1885) 368 The very ingenious idea of the ultra-mundane corpuscles, the outcome of the lifework of Le Sage. |