overworldn.

1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. ix. 325 They [sc. primitive men] believed there was an overworld where God resided in space, and an underworld where all departed spirits were gathered together.

1865 A. J. Davis Morning Lect. 199 The war of the overworld, or Heaven, which means the moral and spiritual sphere of the immortal mind.

1905 V. McNabb Oxf. Conf. on Faith 33 We would then represent our agnostic as saying..‘We are quite certain that there are natural forces and a great world of nature, of which we are a part. But we cannot get beyond this world. There may be an overworld, or an immanent world.’

1966 Punch 1 June 803/1 Since West Indies cricket was baptised..in 1928, it has produced players fit..to play in some overworld a representative company of cricket immortals.

1990 D. Carrasco Relig. Mesoamer. ii. 51 The Mesoamerican universe, in its various formulations, had a geometry consisting of three general levels: an overworld or celestial space; the middleworld or earthly level; and the underworld (Mictlan, Place of the Dead).

1895 H. G. Wells Time Machine xiii. 129 And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the under-world. I understood now what all the beauty of the over-world people covered.

1912 T. Holmes London's Underworld vii. 171 Give us play, play, real play! is the cry that is everlastingly rising from the underworld youth. But the overworld gives them parks and gardens, which are closed at a respectable hour.

1959 Encounter May 29/2 The counter-society or underworld is, like the society or overworld which has expressed it from its own body, class-ridden.

1991 New Scientist 14 Sept. 18/3 It will capture terms such as Oberweltkriminalitaet, or capitalist-inspired crime, which translates literally as overworld crime—the opposite of crime in the underworld.

1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson xix. 290 He floated up. There was air in that over-world.

1958 L. Durrell Mountolive i. 15 Water-tortoises and frogs and sliding fish—a whole population disturbed by this intrusion from the overworld.