a. [f. TRANS- 3 + L. lūna moon, after lunary.] Lying beyond or above the moon: the opposite of sublunary; chiefly fig., etherial, insubstantial, visionary. So Translunar a. (in some recent Dicts.).
1627. Drayton, Agincourt, etc., To H. Reynolds, 206. Neat Marlow bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those braue translunary things.
1826. Beddoes, Lett., Oct., Poems (1851), p. lviii. All my sublunary excursions this summer have been botanical; and my translunary ones … a thought or two for a didactic ‘Boem’ … on myology.
1892. Century Mag., June, 183/2. A strayed visitor from some translunary sphere.
1902. Agnes M. Clerke, Probl. Astrophysics (1903), 2. The long-divorced sublunary and translunary worlds.
