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A.Word.A.Day--extramundane extramundane (ek-struh-mun-DAYN) adjective Beyond the physical world. [From Late Latin extramundanus (beyond the world), from Latin extra- + mundanus, from mundus (world).] "It is both mundane and extramundane: found here on earth, though far from the dailiness of ordinary experience - in this world and hence of it and yet, by the very extremity of the journey required to apprehend it, not of this world." Tom Hansen; Clinton's North; The Explicator (Washington); Summer 2000. "Where rears his terminating pillar high Its extramundane head? and says, to gods, In characters illustrious as the sun." Edward Young (1683-1765); Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality. This week's theme: miscellaneous words. X-Bonus Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

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