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. Sponsored by: Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?ad=aw&code=p17 Free! Extra issue of any of Champs-Elysees Audio Magazines in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Subscribe at: http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith7 ............................................................................ 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) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/supramundane.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/supramundane.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/supramundane.html This message was sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
