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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--supramundane This week's theme: unusual words used in famous quotations. supramundane (soo-pruh-MUN-dayn) 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. X-Bonus 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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