supermundaneadj.

1623 S. Purchas Kings Towre 44 How then could they know that third Kingdome and World, meerely supernaturall, and supermundane?

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 546 The Platonists..had..several Distinctions amongst them concerning their Gods, as between..The Supermundane and the Mundane Gods.

1756 J. Penn Var. Tracts 263 A certain supermundane Soul, which was..the Opificer and Creator of the World.

1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 159 In a distribution of mundane and super-mundane figures, you will always find that the circle is of a diviner nature.

1818 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 309 Perhaps, in that super-mundane region, we may be amused with seeing the fallacy of our own guesses.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. ii. 405 The triple and novene division ran throughout, and connected,..almost identified the mundane and supermundane Church.

1903 H. B. Swete Stud. Teaching Our Lord v. 144 Life in a Divine Kingdom must have a supermundane source.

1938 J. C. Powys Enjoyment of Lit. xviii. 436 Mindless and meaningless Chance..became..a supermundane Mischief, that with an ironic and goblinish malice persecutes the luckless children of its wanton creation.

2001 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 7 July 2556/2 Final causes and ultimate ends determined by a super-mundane power and accessible only to some through the grace of god.

1851 Morning Chron. 17 July 4/3 Lord Chief Justice Campbell has mounted from the very utilitarian inquiry, ‘Shall we keep the Crystal Palace?’ to the most exalted and supermundane speculations in casuistry.

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 489 According to this super-mundane argument, the rule of the Southern States was justly given over to the armed minority.

1919 Bakersfield Californian 30 Apr. ii. 6/3 He calls her [sc. England] a ‘usurper’, a ‘tyrant’... If this is not villifying a nation, then I lack the mental capacity to comprehend such supermundane logic.

1996 Computer Weekly 3 Oct. 6/1 I have long suspected that the most efficient district council is one that doesn't exist, or at least exists in a minimal form... Sadly, no council has reached such an economically-advanced state, though there are some that seem to have this as their supermundane goal.