mundan-, mund-, mond-
(Latin: earth, world)
Ubi non est lex, ibi non est transgressio, quoad mundum. (Latin statement)
Translation: "Where there is no law, there is no transgression, so far as it relates to the world."
ultramundane (adjective), more ultramundane, most ultramundane
1. Pertaining to something that is situated or is extending beyond the world, or beyond the limits of the solar system: At the party, Susan wore the most ultramundane, or most extraordinary, hat anybody had ever seen before.
2. Descriptive of something that belongs to or relates to heaven or to the realm of the spiritual, and not to the physical world: Gregory seemed to behave as if he were in an ultramundane land, way beyond the ambit of the earth or the limit of the universe.l
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2. Descriptive of something that belongs to or relates to heaven or to the realm of the spiritual, and not to the physical world: Gregory seemed to behave as if he were in an ultramundane land, way beyond the ambit of the earth or the limit of the universe.l
