Definitions
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- adj. Above the Earth or earthly concerns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Situated above the world; not of the earth, but superior to it; supermundane; superterrene. Also supraterrestrial.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the silence/the solitude in isolation and loneliness you found your way to a superterrestrial harmony that only you understood with your superhuman dignity in your piece of life—back then
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It is a superterrestrial, mass of five Earths, as confirmed by four moons, also yellowish.
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Look, Imhotep is a superterrestrial planet, more than a third again the surface area of Daedalus-or Terra-not much less than that next to Woden, I'll bet.
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Then they said, "No, we do not believe it," and she admitted that an overworked clerk may save his soul in the superterrestrial sense, where the effort will be taken for the deed, but she denied that he will ever explore the spiritual resources of this world, will ever know the rarer joys of the body, or attain to clear and passionate intercourse with his fellows.
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Intellectual and the Intelligible are divided into triads, which are the superterrestrial gods.
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Then they said, "No they did not believe it," and she admitted that an overworked clerk may save his soul in the superterrestrial sense, where the effort will be taken for the deed, but she denied that he will ever explore the spiritual resources of this world, will ever know the rarer joys of the body, or attain to clear and passionate intercourse with his fellows.
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And hence the mysterious superterrestrial character of such new harmonies as we find in the works of Wagner and
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Moreover there was something unearthly or superterrestrial about him, as if he had been born and brought up in the planet Saturn.
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The whole moral appeal of the church rested on the superterrestrial world which it asserted and pictured.
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And finally, the sculpture of the west front, the Royal Portal, is the most beautiful, the most superterrestrial statuary ever wrought by the hand of man.
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