su·per·lu·na·ry

(so͞o′pər-lo͞o′nə-rē) also su·per·lu·nar (-nər)

adj.

Situated beyond the moon.

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Adj.	1.	superlunary - situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth; "who can imagine a translunary visitor in Times Square?" superlunar, translunar, translunary
	2.	superlunary - unworldly or ethereal; "high translunary dreams" superlunar, translunar, translunary heavenly - of or belonging to heaven or god

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The causal connection between the superlunary and sublunary worlds is rightly presented as a crucial feature of the philosophical cosmology adopted by al-Ghazali.

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This new universe defies the ancient authority of Aristotle, who had placed the earth in the terrestrial, or sublunary, region, separate from the other planets located in the celestial, or superlunary, region.

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See Nichols, "Ekphrasis, Iconoclasm, and Desire." In glossing the several prominent instances of ekphrasis in the Aeneid, commentators from Fulgentius to Bernard Silvestris emphasized the contrast between the visual and the verbal, or between the superlunary and eternal on one hand and the temporal and terrestrial on the other.

"With many a floryn he the hewes boghte": ekphrasis and symbolic violence in the Knight's Tale

When we turn to passages where Aristotle does mention ether explicitly (De Caelo 2.2 and 2.3), we learn that it is "beyond the bodies that are about us on this earth, different and separate from them" (269b13-16), and found exclusively in the superlunary realm.

C.D.C. Reeve, Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics

This dialogue centered on fundamental Aristotelian ideas, namely, the separation of the universe into sublunary and superlunary regi ons and the idea of celestial incorruptibility.

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