supramundane

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Still a writer inside Mr. Gladstone's church and in full and active sympathy with him on this side of mundane and supramundane things, would undoubtedly have treated the subject differently from any writer outside.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John

Papias, adopting the words of the Apocalypse, emphasizes the fact that Satan was cast down to the earth, because this shows that paradise was a supramundane region.

From Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" by Lightfoot, Joseph Barber

He dreamed perpetually of the philosopher's stone, and was haunted with the belief of intercourse of a supramundane character.

From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William