other worldn.adj.

OE Homily: Sunnandæges Spell (Corpus Cambr. 419) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 205 An diacon wearð forðfered on Sceotlande, and he wæs fif wucan dead and onwoc þa eft of deaðe..and he sæde fela wundra, þe he geseah on ðære oðre weorulde.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4192 Resste daȝȝ..tacneþþ all þatt resste. & ro. Þatt hallȝhe sawless brukenn. Inn oþerr werelld.

a1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Bodl. e Mus.) 91 (MED) Sche shal be brent with hym that is here hosbonde, for they seyn that it is resoun that she be his felawe in that othyr world as she was in this.

a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 7050 (MED) As here is diuersete, So shal þere in þe oþer world be.

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlv. f. 243 Which I do not much lament hauing long desired to accelerate the same wyth mine owne handes, to finde rest in an other world: were it not that by death I should leaue an eternall blotte to my good name.

1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 94 They receiue punishment in an other world, for the mischiefe they haue done vnto vs.

c1612 W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) i. iv. 60 The Lieutenaunt..with his dagger sent him to accompany his Master in the other world.

1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 69 Not long after, he was transplanted into the other World by an immature Fate.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 56. ¶2 To the great Repository of Souls, or, as we call it here, to the other World.

1740 W. Stukeley Stonehenge vi. 31 It was thought..one of those epistles, which the Celtic people were wont to send their friends in the other world.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xlii. 141 Baldus..entered upon the law so late in life, that every body imagined he intended to be an advocate in the other world.

1824 Lancet 24 Apr. 123/2 Some quacks..nearly sent her to the other world.

1887 G. B. Shaw Short Stories, Scraps & Shavings in Wks. (1932) VI. 101 With gho—with people from—with ladies and gentlemen from the other world.

1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters xxvi. 309 That voice was as if a corpse opened its lips, and told of horrors beyond the grave. It brought the other world into the homely room, and made it all demoniac.

1998 Brit. Mus. Mag. Sept. 22/1 The mummy itself was bedecked with prescribed funerary jewellery made specifically to give amuletic protection during the fraught passage to the Other World.

1804 M. Wilmot Let. 29 June in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 107 What think you..the place is like?..to let you at once into the secrets of Other Worlds, know that Kattova is very like a wooden village.

1880 G. M. Hopkins Let. 22 Dec. in G. M. Hopkins & R. D. Dixon Corr. (1935) 37 The other-world of imagination.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. vii. 175 The most determined sacrificing of ‘this warm kind world’..to a cold other-world with its torturing inadmissible claims.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love iv. 46 The whole otherworld, wet and remote, he had to himself.

1953 A. Huxley Let. 21 June (1969) 678 His [sc. the schizophrenic's] commonest experiences are of an Other World, not heavenly but infernal and purgatorial.

1968 T. Wolfe Electric Kool-aid Acid Test v. 60 The whole other world that LSD opened your mind to.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Apr. 445/3 Mr McCarthy sets his saga of Servier County in the strange otherworld of a Tennessee winter.

1994 Interzone June 15/2 We went into the desert for five years, built separate shacks, and entered our own otherworlds.

1794 J. C. Cross Apparition ii. iv. 26 Your most obadient t'other world gentlefolks!]

1882 Cent. Mag. Nov. 61/1 After the austerities and other-world speculations of the middle age, the jocund earth had been newly discovered by its inhabitants.

1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 18 That sweet other-world smile.

1917 Mod. Philol. 15 450 The imram is a sea-voyage tale in which a hero, accompanied by a few companions, wanders about from island to island, meets Otherworld wonders everywhere, and finally returns to his native land.

1957 G. Ashe King Arthur's Avalon i. 28 A Lake Villagers' burial ground on Ynyswitrin, with a resulting Ghosts' High Noon presided over by other-world deities.

1995 Guardian 21 Mar. ii. 11/5 An otherworld fantasy full of science-fictional surprises and reversals, radiating the traditional sf dislike of organised, ossified religion.

1894 Q. Rev. Jan. 245 An other-worldish and rather somnolent party.

1982 Amer. Math. Monthly 89 797 Mathematics is an esoteric activity entirely revealed to and used by other-worldish people.