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Definition of Superlunary
1. Adjective. Situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth. "Who can imagine a translunary visitor in Times Square?"
2. Adjective. Unworldly or ethereal. "High translunary dreams"
Definition of Superlunary
1. Adjective. translunary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Superlunary
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superlunary
Literary usage of Superlunary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Methodist Review (1847)
"How widely does this last sentiment differ from the doctrine of Aristotle, which
placed the superlunary and sublunary bodies under entirely different laws; ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Other ambition than of crowns in air, And superlunary felicities, Thy bosom warm.
Young, Night Thoughts, vi. ..."
3. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"All this will be for a future race when the superlunary geography will have become
the object of my contemplations. Yet I do not wish it the less. ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"... and we think it more simple and manly to say so at once, than 13 D to admit
nominally superlunary claims, which, in the progress of our remarks, ..."
5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, Richard Holland Johnston (1905)
"All this will be for a future race when the superlunary geography will have become
the object of my contemplations. Yet I do not wish it the less. ..."
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