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transmundane
adjective
reaching beyond or existing outside the physical or visible world.
More about transmundane
Transmundane was first recorded in 1770-80. It combines Latin trans- 鈥渂eyond鈥� and mundane, which finds its roots in the Latin word meaning 鈥渨orld.鈥�
how is transmundane used?
Below me along the lifelines I was aware of many sailors joining in these observations, gazing dumbstruck at it as something transmundane.
… a common labourer and a travelling tinker had propounded and discussed one of the most ancient theories of transmundane dominion and influence on mundane affairs.
More about farouche
The adjective farouche, accented on the second syllable, shows that it is still an unnaturalized borrowing from French. The Old French adjective faroche, forasche derives from the Late Latin 蹿辞谤腻蝉迟颈肠耻蝉 鈥渂elonging outside or out of doors鈥� (i.e., not fit to be inside), a derivative of the adverb and preposition 蹿辞谤腻蝉 (also 蹿辞谤墨蝉) 鈥�(to the) outside, abroad.鈥� A similar semantic development can be seen in savage, from Middle French salvage, sauvage, from Medieval Latin 蝉补濒惫腻迟颈肠耻蝉 (Latin 蝉颈濒惫腻迟颈肠耻蝉) 鈥減ertaining to the woods.鈥� Farouche entered English in the 18th century.
how is farouche used?
He’s a bit farouche, but I like the way he enthuses about what interests him. It’s not put on.
Many of the women in these stories are farouche–they’re outsiders, they’re troubled, they lack polish, they dream too much.
benedict
noun
a newly married man, especially one who has been long a bachelor.
More about benedict
Benedict is a familiar correction of Benedick (Benedicke), the former confirmed bachelor newly married in Shakespeare鈥檚 Much Ado about Nothing (1600). Benedict as a common noun entered English in the 19th century.
how is benedict used?
It had, when I first went to town, just become the fashion for young men of fortune to keep house, and to give their bachelor establishments the importance hitherto reserved for the household of a Benedict.
“Why are you so anxious for all England to be informed that you are a Benedict?” I enquired scornfully.