a. [ad. late L. extramundān-us, f. phrase extrā mund-um outside the world or universe: see EXTRA- pref. and MUNDANE.]
1. Situated outside of, or pertaining to a region outside of, our world.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., xviii. 116. ’Tis a Philosophy, that … gives the exactest Topography of the Extramundane spaces.
1684. T. Burnet, Th. Earth, I. 175. One [opinion] placeth paradise in the extra-mundane regions.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 1525. Where, rears His terminating Pillar high Its extra-mundane Head?
1879. Newcomb & Holden, Astron., 376. Aerolites … were proved to be of extramundane origin.
b. fig. (nonce-uses). ‘Out of the world,’ remote; pertaining to things not of this world.
1829. Southey, Sir T. More, II. 325. What may be called an extramundane zeal.
1834. Fraser’s Mag., X. 652. Babbling of poetry in this extra-mundane island. Ibid. (1837), XVI. 310. The asseverations in the book are so preposterous … and the dreams so extramundane.
2. Situated outside or beyond the universe; pertaining to what is beyond the universe.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Extramundane space, i. e. the infinite empty void Space, which is supposed by some to reach beyond the Bounds of the Universe.
1715–6. Clarke, trans. Leibnitz’s 4th Paper, § 7. The same Reason, which shews that extramundane Space [Fr. l’Espace hors du monde] is imaginary, proves [etc.].
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 126. The independent (extra-mundane) existence … of the Supreme One.
