A.Word.A.Day -- supramundane

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Jul 27, 2007

This week's theme
Unusual words used in famous quotations

This week's words
anecdotage
circumambulate
dictatress
gladsome
supramundane

Next week’s theme
Words with double connections

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supramundane

(soo-pruh-MUN-dayn) adjective

adjective: Above or beyond this world.

[From Latin supra- (above) + mundus (world).]

"At first it was a giant column that soon took the shape of a supramundane mushroom."
William L. Laurence; Drama of the Atomic Bomb Found Climax in July 16 Test; The New York Times; Sep 26, 1945; quoted in The Yale Book of Quotations.

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Science is built with facts as a house is with stones--but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

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