translunaryadj.
/tranzˈl(j)uːn(ə)ri/, /trɑːnzˈl(j)uːn(ə)ri/, /transˈl(j)uːn(ə)ri/, /trɑːnsˈl(j)uːn(ə)ri/, U.S. /trænzˈlunəri/, /træn(t)sˈlunəri/ Existing or situated beyond or above the moon, or beyond the orbit or (supposed) sphere of the moon (now chiefly historical). Also figurative: heavenly or otherworldly in nature or origin; spiritual, visionary. Cf. translunar adj. 1.Contrasted with sublunary.
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the world > the universe > space > [adjective] > beyond or above moon
superlunary1614
translunary1627
supralunary1635
supralunar1719
superlunar1742
translunar1962
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [adjective]
translunary1627
otherworldly1873
other world1882
other-worldish1894
Ruritanian1894
Vegan1940
subcreative1947
1627 M. Drayton Elegies in Battaile Agincourt 206 Neat Marlow bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those braue translunary things.
1826 T. L. Beddoes Let. Oct. in Wks. (1935) 620 All my sublunary excursions this summer have been botanical ones, & my translunary ones..a thought or two for a didactic Boem..on Myology.
1892 Cent. Mag. June 183/2 Shelley,..whose poetry seemed the aureole of a strayed visitor from some translunary sphere.
1902 A. M. Clerke Probl. Astrophysics (1903) 2 Thus the long-divorced sublunary and translunary worlds were conjoined, and their material unity..was definitively proclaimed.
1966 MLN 81 134 Souls inhabited the Anima Mundana, the translunary world of the spheres [according to 15th-century Neoplatonists].
2006 Independent (Nexis) 2 Dec. 40 It dramatises that they [sc. the Government] have access to translunary information that we in the secular world can only dream about.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1627