Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as translunar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Being or lying beyond the moon; hence, ethereal; -- opposed to sublunary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Situated beyond or above the moon; superlunary.
  • adjective Celestial, rather than earthly.
  • adjective Ideal; visionary.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective unworldly or ethereal
  • adjective situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth

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Examples

  • (1563–1631) 355Had in him those brave translunary things

    Quotations 1919

  • (1563–1631) 1Had in him those brave translunary things

    Quotations 1919

  • QUOTATION: Had in him those brave translunary things

    Quotations 1919

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

    Ponkapog Papers. 1904

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

    The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • An inclusion of nearly all the effective lyrics of Poe, and of enough of Emerson to show his translunary spirit at full height, still left each of these antipodal bards within smaller confines than are given to Longfellow, —the people’s “artist of the beautiful” through half a century of steadfast production, or to Whittier—the born balladist, whose manner and purport could not be set forth compactly.

    0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 Edmund Clarence Stedman 1900

  • Marlowe, that he "had in him those brave translunary things that the first poets had;" and there are brave things in Drayton, but they are only occasional passages, oases among dreary wastes of sand.

    From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

  • It was Drayton who said of Marlowe, that he "had in him those brave translunary things that the first poets had;" and there are brave {98} things in Drayton, but they are only occasional passages, oases among dreary wastes of sand.

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

  • Drayton said of Marlowe, "those brave translunary things that the first poets had."

    Ponkapog Papers Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

  • 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".

    An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

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