Spinozism, the immanence of Deity in creation, -- a principle as dear to the philosophic mind as that of the extramundane Divinity is to the theologian. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
It was the watering hole of a fair number of occultists and sensitives-psis like Di, who had mundane jobs and mundane lives, and extramundane interests. From Wordnik.com. [Children Of The Night]
The answer seems to be, much of what makes for a nourishing existence: wide networks of kinship, respectful relations with nature, and a functional sense of the extramundane. From Wordnik.com. [Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem] Reference
Mundane goodness as well as extramundane goodness, of which mundane goodness is a finite instance. From Wordnik.com. [Triablogue] Reference
If any one chooses to assume that it was created by an extramundane power, Haeckel says he will not object. From Wordnik.com. [What is Darwinism?] Reference
But however much his eye seemed always fixed on things earthly, and on the understanding and utilization of them -- yet, as a man of exceptional gifts, he could in no wise dispense with the extramundane and the supersensual. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference
I was packin 'a couple of black eyes, the particulars of which is extramundane to this case, an' the barkeep, defendant here's alleged brother, asked certain pertinent an 'unmitigated questions concernin' the aforesaid black eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Flowers] Reference
Such a representation, if it diminishes the grandeur of the universe accessible to sense, exalts that of the supersensual and extramundane regions where the action takes its birth, and where Milton's gigantic imagination is most perfectly at home. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Milton] Reference
He deals too much with shadowy and incomprehensible beings, and is too constantly rapt into an extramundane Elysium, to command a lasting interest with ordinary mortals -- and must employ the agency of more varied and coarser emotions, if he wishes to take rank with the seducing poets of this or of former generations. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
The opposition of the materialists is absolutely intelligent since it is clear that any man who has spent his life in saying "No" to all extramundane forces is, indeed, in a pitiable position when, after many years, he has to recognise that his whole philosophy is built upon sand and that "Yes" was the answer from the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [The Vital Message] Reference
Being rather curious to discover who, in this extramundane place, had learnt to sing with so much taste, we followed the direction of the sound, till we came upon a party sitting under the shade of a tent, and, like ourselves, enjoying the cool of the evening; on perceiving us, some of them came forward, and the satisfaction was mutual when we recognised one another as old acquaintances. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815] Reference
It was fun to see things called “extramundane aboriginals” as opposed to today’s favored “extraterrestrial intelligences.”. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Age Adventures] Reference
He is extramundane as well as antemundane. From Wordnik.com. [What is Darwinism?] Reference
I just got my 342nd favorite from extramundane. From Wordnik.com. [MetaTalk] Reference
Here also that conflict, which we have deemed it our duty to portray in detail above, became evident in a remarkable degree; for though he appeared to reject everything which lay outside the bounds of general knowledge, and beyond the sphere of what may be exemplified from experience, none the less, while he did not transgress the lines so sharply drawn, he could never refrain, in tentative fashion, as it were, from peeping over them, and from constructing and representing, in his own way, an extramundane world, a state concerning which all the innate powers of our soul can give us no information. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference
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