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Definition of Transmundane
1. Adjective. Existing or extending beyond the physical world. "Whatever of transmundane...insight...we may carry"
Definition of Transmundane
1. Adjective. Occurring beyond the physical world ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transmundane
Literary usage of Transmundane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Statutes of the Province of Canada by Canada (1859)
"C. An Act to incorporate the transmundane Telegraph Company. [Assented to 4th
May, 1859.] munication should he established from this Province westward by ..."
2. Monism and Meliorism: A Philosophical Essay on Causality and Ethics by Paul Carus (1885)
"The dogmatist says : " There is some transmundane power that has arranged the
world to accomplish some ends or purposes" (the Greek word is re\o?, ..."
3. The Widow's Mite and Other Psychic Phenomena by Isaac Kaufman Funk (1911)
"The wide range of simple mind-reading, in case of Hodgson with Mrs. Peper, seems
more of a miracle than extra or transmundane communication. ..."
4. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"At these places at least, I say, it would seem as though transmundane energies,
God, if you will, produced immediate effects within the natural world to ..."
5. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... telepathy, or transmundane irruption, and their interest in the soul is both
impelled and guided by the imperious question of its survival after death, ..."
6. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1900)
"Whatever of transmundane metaphysical insight or of practically inapplicable
aesthetic perception or ethical sentiment we may carry in our interiors might ..."
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