a. (sb.) [f. L. super SUPER- 1 + lūna moon + -ARY, after sublunary.] Situated above or beyond the moon; belonging to a higher world, celestial; fig. extravagant: the opposite of sublunary.
1614. Purchas, Pilgrimage, I. ii. (ed. 2), 8. Our sense, which thence receiueth Light, and there in the æthereall region seeth new Starres and superlunarie Comets.
1634. T. Carew, Cælum Brit., Wks. (1824), 156. Jupiter hath before a frequent convocation of the superlunary peeres recanted.
1676. Marvell, Mr. Smirke, 31. This superlunary instance does not serve in the least to confirme his Argument that he makes against the Authors words.
1708. H. Dodwell, Expl. Dial. Justin, 78. Mr. Chishull adds further, that what is there said, is put into the Mouth of a Genius, a Dæmon, (whom he elsewhere calls a Spectre) a Superlunary Being, whom he supposes to have a Language proper to their own Kind.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., VI. 756. Other ambition than of crowns in air, And superlunary felicities.
1837. Carlyle, Misc. Ess., Diam. Necklace (1872), V. 159. The foolish Cardinal, since no sublunary means … will serve, has taken to the superlunary.
1885. Meredith, Diana, xliii. As for her superlunary sphere, it was in fragments.
† b. sb. A superlunary being. Obs.
1708. H. Dodwell, Expl. Dial. Justin, 80. They were not Superlunaries (as Mr. Chishull supposes) at that time of their Familiarity with Men.
