ultramundane

American  

[uhl-truh-muhn-deyn, -muhn-deyn] / ˌʌl trə mʌnˈdeɪn, -ˈmʌn deɪn /

adjective

1. outside or beyond the earth or the orbits of the planets.

2. outside the sphere of physical existence.

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ultramundane British  

/ ˌʌltrəˈmʌndeɪn /

adjective

1. extending beyond the world, this life, or the universe

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Etymology

Origin of ultramundane

1540–50; < Latin ultrāmundānus, equivalent to Latin ultrā ultra- + mundānus mundane

Example Sentences

Lesage supposed space to be overrun in all directions by currents of ultramundane corpuscles.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

But I am certain that my stupidity does not originate in any ultramundane flights.”

From The Locusts' Years by Fee, Mary Helen

Charles Knollys was gone, utterly gone; no more to be met with by his girl-wife, save as spirit to spirit, soul to soul, in ultramundane place.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 by Various

To make the hypothesis workable, so to say, it is necessary to assume that the "ultramundane" particles are possessed of absolute elasticity, so that they rebound from one another on collision without loss of speed.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

Why, it is a political phenomenon, a prodigy of legislative wisdom, the fame of which will soon extend ultramundane, and astonish the nations of the world with its transcendent excellence.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James