translunary

[ trans-loo-ner-ee, tranz-; trans-loo-nuh-ree, tranz- ]

adjective

1. situated beyond or above the moon; superlunary.
2. celestial, rather than earthly.
3. ideal; visionary.

Word History and Origins

Origin of translunary¹

1620–30; trans- + lunary < French lun ( aire ) or Latin lun ( āris ) lunar + -ary

Example Sentences

Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had.

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You know the old recipe for Wine of Cos, that full-bodied, seignorial, superlative, translunary wine.

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The day Emerson wrote Bacchus he had in him, as Michael Drayton said of Marlowe, "those brave translunary things that the first poets had."

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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".

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Even as a poet Donne       "Had in him those brave translunary things       That our first poets had."

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