supramundane

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Several of his supramundane gambits made copy for newsmen of the 1860s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a supramundane observer would find himself entering into a new era, in which all his previous knowledge would sink into oblivion.

From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)

He is as supramundane in his way as Shelley in his.

From Milton by Bailey, John Cann

He believes in no historical Resurrection, Ascension, or Atonement, yet hungers and thirsts for a supramundane source of Law, and holds fast by a faith in the Nemesis of Greek, Goth, and Jew.

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John

Tempests and conflagrations, pestilences and earthquakes, reveal supramundane powers, and instigate religious terror rather than philosophy.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William