Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lying between worlds, or between orb and orb.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Being, between worlds or orbs.

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  • adjective Between worlds or planets.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ mundane

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Examples

  • Now it will be very hard to find a new cause, unless we fancy some strange air, water, or food never tasted by the ancients, should out of other worlds or intermundane spaces descend to us.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Therefore, Diogenianus, you see that this account requires no new strange causes, no intermundane spaces; but the single alteration of our diet is enough to raise new diseases and abolish old.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Therefore, Diogenianus, you see that this account requires no new strange causes, no intermundane spaces; but the single alteration of our diet is enough to raise new diseases and abolish old.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Now it will be very hard to find a new cause, unless we fancy some strange air, water, or food never tasted by the ancients, should out of other worlds or intermundane spaces descend to us.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship.

    Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

  • Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship.

    Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women George MacDonald 1864

  • The system of ten thousand worlds was like a bouquet of flowers sent whirling through the air, or like a thick carpet of flowers; in the intermundane spaces the eight-thousand-league-longhells, which not even the light of seven suns had formerly been able to illumine, were now flooded with radiance; the eighty-four-thousand-league-deep ocean became sweet to the taste; the rivers checked their flowing; the blind from birth received their sight; the deaf from birth their hearing; the cripples from birth the use of their limbs; and the bonds and fetters of captives broke and fell off.

    The Attainment of Buddhaship. I. The Buddha. Translated from the Introduction to the Jtaka (i. 685). 1909

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