| 单词 |
extramundane |
| 释义 |
extramundane, a.|ɛkstrəˈmʌndeɪn|
[ad. late L. extramundān-us, f. phrase extrā mund-um outside the world or universe: see extra- prefix and mundane.]
1. Situated outside of, or pertaining to a region outside of, our world.
1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. xviii. 116 'Tis a philosophy that..gives the exactest Topography of the Extramundane spaces. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth I. 175 One [opinion] placeth paradise in the extra-mundane regions. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 1525 Where, rears His terminating Pillar high Its extra-mundane Head? 1879Newcomb & Holden Astron. 376 Aerolites..were proved to be of extramundane origin.
b. fig. (nonce-uses). ‘Out of the world’, remote; pertaining to things not of this world.
1829Southey Sir T. More II. 325 What may be called an extramundane zeal. 1834Fraser's Mag. X. 652 Babbling of poetry in this extra-mundane island. 1837Ibid. XVI. 310 The asseverations in the book are so preposterous..and the dreams so extramundane.
2. Situated outside or beyond the universe; pertaining to what is beyond the universe.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Extramundane space, i.e. the infinite empty void Space, which is supposed by some to reach beyond the Bounds of the Universe. 1715–6Clarke tr. Leibnitz's 4th Paper §7 The same Reason, which shews that extramundane Space [Fr. l'Espace hors du monde] is imaginary, proves, etc. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 126 The independent (extra-mundane) existence..of the Supreme One. |
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