a. [f. TRANS- 3 + L. mund-us world: cf. mundane.] That is or lies beyond the world.
1777. J. Richardson, Dict. Persian, Arab., etc., Dissert. 29/1. Every ingenious critic may then, like Archimedes of old, require only some transmundane station on which to rear his engines; in order to shake to pieces the reason of man.
1859. G. Meredith, R. Feverel, iii. One of the most ancient theories of transmundane dominion and influence on mundane affairs.
1899. W. James, Talks to Teachers on Psychol., 24. Whatever of transmundane metaphysical insight … we may carry.
