translunary
Americanadjective
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situated beyond or above the moon; superlunary.
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celestial, rather than earthly.
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ideal; visionary.
Etymology
Origin of translunary
1620–30; trans- + lunary < French lun ( aire ) or Latin lun ( āris ) lunar + -ary
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Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Man, in his earth life, cannot always be "high contemplative", and indulge in "brave translunary things"; he must welcome again, it must be confessed, "land the solid and safe".
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson
The day Emerson wrote Bacchus he had in him, as Michael Drayton said of Marlowe, "those brave translunary things that the first poets had."
From Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Even as a poet Donne "Had in him those brave translunary things That our first poets had."
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
Old Drayton thought that a man that lived here, and would be a poet, for instance, should have in him certain "brave, translunary things," and a "fine madness" should possess his brain.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
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