Definition of "superlunar" []

• Above or beyond the Moon (from a vantage point on Earth). (adjective)

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• "His predecessor Maimonides had claimed that no valid inference can be drawn from the nature of the sublunar sphere to that of the superlunar sphere."
• "Thanks to it certain events in the sky — the outburst of new stars (the Novae of 1572 and 1604) and the passing of comets, introducing change in the immutable superlunar heaven — created a sensation and excited discussions."
• "There was the duality, unacceptable to a rigorous mind, of the incorruptible superlunar spheres and of the impure sublunar sphere of the Earth subject to change, this very Earth which paradoxically formed the center of the whole system, i.e., usurped what was, for the spontaneous imagina - tion, the place of honor."